291: Chapter 291 Xuanqing backs down, Liang faces internal and external troubles, and the South China Sea offers people a meal!

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Beside the North Sea, the wind and snow were like blades.

The defensive line on the northern border of the Wei State was like paper under the assault of the Sea Ape Beast clan.

Hundreds of giant apes, mountain-like in size with four arms and three eyes, trampled through the ice layer, leaped onto land, and with a casual punch, collapsed the city walls of several towns.

In the cities, tens of thousands of Mortals and low-level Cultivators fled in all directions.

"Quick, activate the Formation!"

The shrill screams were covered by the wind and snow.

A Sea Ape Beast at the Foundation Establishment Stage grabbed a Qi Refining Cultivator, pulled with both hands, and tore him in two. Blood splattered on the snowy ground, a shocking sight.

The Chief of the Sea Ape Beast Clan stood on the clouds, transformed into a burly giant, and watched the slaughter below with cold eyes.

"The Wei State is nothing more than this."

"It is much weaker than it was two hundred years ago; the Xuanqing Sect has truly declined."

Just then, from the hinterland of the Wei State, in the direction of the Xuanqing Sect, an extremely ancient Aura rose. An old man with white hair and beard, his face full of Death Qi, stepped through the Void Realm.

With every step he took, the Void Realm trembled slightly.

The Grand Elder of the Xuanqing Sect, at the Middle Stage of the Nascent Soul.

"Evil beast, you have crossed the line."

The old man's voice was hoarse, carrying a sense of decay like a setting sun, but that Nascent Soul pressure pressed solidly onto the shoulders of the Chief of the Sea Ape Beast Clan.

The Chief of the Sea Ape Beast Clan narrowed his eyes but did not retreat.

"Old bones, how many years do you have left to live? Do you really want to risk your life?" The Chief of the Sea Ape Beast Clan sneered.

The old man was expressionless: "If you advance another thousand miles, even if I have to exhaust this entire life's cultivation, I will take you with me."

"Do you dare to gamble?"

The sky was deathly silent.

After weighing the pros and cons, the Chief of the Sea Ape Beast Clan restrained his Aura somewhat.

He had come to plunder resources, not to trade lives with a dying old monster of the Human Race, so he snorted coldly:

"My sons, plunder locally, do not enter the hinterland!"

"Kill!"

The old man stood in the wind and snow, watching the coastal cities turn into a living hell in the blink of an eye, with tens of millions of Mortals and low-level Cultivators becoming nourishment.

The old man closed his eyes and said nothing more.

He could only protect the core of the Xuanqing Sect; as for the Mortals and Loose Cultivators on the border, they could only be left to fate, and he would no longer pay them any mind.

His Xuanqing Sect could really no longer afford the losses.

If they lost another one or two Nascent Souls, the Taiqing Sect would likely be the first to make a move, destroying them first and then monopolizing the Wei State.

Even if the Taiqing Sect did not make a move, the increasingly weak Xuanqing Sect had only two choices: either choose to give up resistance and merge into the Shangqing Sect.

Or join forces with the Taiqing Sect to deal with the Shangqing Sect, only to be wiped out by the Shangqing Sect together.

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East Sea, the coastline of the Liang Kingdom.

The seawater churned, and pitch-black tentacles emerged from the sea, wrapping around the various defensive Formations on the shore and crushing them alive.

The Yao King of the Eight-Clawed Giant Beast clan, transformed into that bald old man, stepped on the crest of a wave and let out a harsh, strange laugh.

"Kill! Leave none alive!"

The Liang Kingdom was already in internal turmoil.

The demon disaster of the Holy Blood Sect had swept through the four prefectures, the Disciples of the three major sects were suppressing rebellions everywhere, and the defensive line of the East Sea was empty to the extreme.

The army of sea beasts drove straight in, leaving nothing in their wake.

A certain ruin.

A group of Loose Cultivators who had just consumed the Holy Blood had not yet had time to take revenge on the three major sects when they ran head-on into the landing tide of sea beasts.

"What is this thing!"

"Sea Yao! The Sea Yao have come ashore!"

The demonized Loose Cultivators and the sea beasts clashed, flesh and blood flying everywhere.

But the number of sea beasts was too great, seemingly endless, and the Loose Cultivators were quickly submerged in the beast tide, not even their bones remaining.

Main Peak of the Haoran Sect.

True Monarch Haoran smashed the jade table with one palm. "Yao Race of the East Sea! That group of eight-clawed monsters, how dare they make trouble at this time!"

True Monarch Tianjian's face was even more livid: "Beset by enemies from both front and rear, the Holy Blood Sect is causing chaos internally, while the Sea Yao are attacking the cities externally."

"Our manpower is simply not enough."

"Go to the eastern front!"

True Monarch Tongyou gritted his teeth: "The Holy Blood Sect is just a rabble; the Sea Yao are the real threat. Mobilize all Golden Core Cultivators, rush to the East Sea to block the beast herd, and stabilize the East Sea region first."

"We three old guys will deal with the East Sea Yao King."

"The remaining four Nascent Souls of our three sects will go down to suppress the various places in the country and suppress the influence brought by the Holy Blood Sect as soon as possible."

"At the same time, we must also be vigilant against the threats from the Taiqing Sect and the Shangqing Sect in the west."

"The Shangqing Sect will inevitably have a showdown with us, and the Taiqing Sect, the only one not involved in the beast tide, will waver at that time."

"They may help us maintain the current balance."

"Or they might turn their blades against us and carve up the three sects of our Liang Kingdom together."

Having said this, the three old-generation Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the three sects finally reached a consensus and transformed into three long rainbows, heading straight for the East Sea.

At this moment, they could only leave it to fate.

And the Liang Kingdom fell into unprecedented chaos, with Mortal cities being blood-bathed by demon Cultivators and Cultivator families being devoured by sea beasts.

Between heaven and earth, only a sea of blood remained.

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South Sea, the southern part of Feng Prefecture.

The southern region had completely turned into an ocean, and Great Lord Ao Qin transformed into a golden flood dragon hundreds of feet long, coiling above the clouds, silently watching the main city of Feng Prefecture thousands of miles away...

Above the main city, four Nascent Soul Auras soared into the sky.

True Monarch Ziyang, True Monarch Mingyuan, True Monarch Hanyuan, and True Monarch Fang Yi stood in four directions, supporting a fourth-tier Formation.

Outside the city was a dense army of sea beasts.

Inside the city, people were panicked, and chaos spread from within.

As for the vast land outside the city, it had long since become a hunting ground for the Sea Yao.

"Great Lord Ao Qin, do you really want to go to full-scale war with my Shangqing Sect?" True Monarch Ziyang's voice was icy, spreading across the wilderness.

Great Lord Ao Qin rolled in the clouds, letting out a heaven-shaking Dragon roar.

"The Human Race kills my kin and occupies my sea territory. Today, this Monarch will collect some interest."

Great Lord Ao Qin transformed into a dragon-man and landed in mid-air: "Hand over the murderer who killed the Poison Flood Dragon and withdraw from Feng Prefecture, and this Monarch will retreat."

True Monarch Ziyang sneered: "What does the death of the Poison Flood Dragon have to do with my Shangqing Sect?"

"If you want to fight, the four of us will accompany you to the end, but is your Flood Dragon clan really prepared to be enemies with the thirteen Nascent Souls of the Shangqing Sect?"

Both sides confronted each other across the air, neither making the first move.

A battle at the Nascent Soul level, once started, would be world-destroying.

Great Lord Ao Qin was not in a hurry; he was waiting for news from the eastern and northern fronts. True Monarch Ziyang was also waiting, waiting for the main force of the Shangqing Sect to annex the Liang Kingdom.

The only ones suffering were the low-level living beings.

On a hill outside Feng Prefecture city.

A little girl at the Qi Refinement Stage was clutching a mutilated corpse.

That was her father. Several low-level crab Yao surrounded them, waving their giant pincers.

"Daddy..." The little girl could not cry out, her eyes filled with despair.

On the city walls, the Disciples of the Shangqing Sect watched this scene with cold eyes, no one making a move. The Formation only protected the city, and everything outside the city was abandoned.

The crab Yao pounced, tearing the little girl to pieces.

This was just an insignificant microcosm on the land of Feng Prefecture.

Tens of millions of Mortals and hundreds of thousands of Loose Cultivators turned into bloody mud under the fangs of the sea beasts. Their deaths bought the capital for the current standoff between the Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

It was nothing more than offering these tens of thousands of living beings to slow down the speed of the sea clan's continued harassment, waiting for the results of battles elsewhere to erupt.

Their southern battlefield was never important from beginning to end.

The real battlefield, and the focus of this great war, had always been the Liang Kingdom. The subsequent direction of the Liang Kingdom would determine the moves of all parties thereafter.