A giant hole appeared in the sky.
In the depths of that hole in the crimson sky, one could see a giant, golden-horned beast biting again and again.
With each bite, the hole grew larger and larger, gradually opening the entire sky.
Following this giant beast was a world in the form of half a planet.
It hung in the sky like a moon, but so much closer and brighter.
On that moon, one could vaguely make out shining palaces and people flying here and there.
It was a scene straight out of a fairytale.
It was all real, but it did not represent beauty.
The invasion of a neighboring domain had begun, and the Blood River Domain’s territory was being lost at a terrifying pace.
It was as if what had happened in the Yellow Court World had been brought into the main world.
As the Ning Beast devoured more and more, the distance between the Rosecloud Domain and the Blood River Domain shrank. That bright moon in the sky drew closer like a descending meteor.
And as it drew closer, it obscured the entire sky.
Normally, this was merely an exaggeration, but this time, the sky had truly ceased to exist.
The two worlds were so close that they were about to connect.
When the bright moon that was the Rosecloud Domain finally collided with the surface of the Blood River Domain, there was a massive boom, and a series of earthquakes erupted across the land.
The first to collide were the mountains of the domains, peak against peak, the towering mountains of Rosecloud slamming into the mountains of Blood River like giant pillars. In a flash, the mountains were pulverized into clouds of dust.
As the mountains crumbled, the gravitational pull of the two worlds suspended the debris between the two worlds, forming a belt of stone in the sky.
Then the surfaces collided, the earth groaning and shuddering from the impact. The impact traveled into the bowels of the earth and then erupted from the surface again as pillars of energy. These pillars of energy mixed together with the pillars of energy from the world on the other side, creating a grandiose sight.
The surface began to ripple as the worst earthquake of all took place, the shockwaves traveling thousands of kilometers and destroying everything in the area. What was different here was that the Rosecloud Domain had long ago made preparations, evacuating all the people beforehand and choosing the most desolate Transverse Range as the site of impact. In contrast, the Blood River Domain had made no preparations at all, so the collision resulted in everyone on the surface dying. This was a massacre, but there was no other choice. War was for resources, and to get sufficient resources, a certain level of slaughter was required. The only thing they could do was focus the slaughter on the fiends and demons, avoiding human territory.
Even so, the shockwaves were so widespread that they still affected the humans, though their losses were much less severe.
But this was not the end of things. After the collision of surfaces, the oceans began to overflow, the gravity of the two worlds pulling at each other’s oceans. As a result, giant pillars of water spiraled into the air, and the seas transformed into a chaotic dance of struggling water fiends and monsters. Dangerous and hidden areas of the ocean were destroyed in the collision, driving out the great fiends slumbering within. ṝ₦оĚʂ
The Rosecloud Domain didn’t have any significant ocean areas, but the Blood River Domain had mighty oceans populated with primitive fiends, which met with calamity.
Finally, the energy of the bowels of the earth erupted. The power of the impact hadn’t just been felt horizontally, but also vertically. While some of its power had turned around and erupted from the surface in mighty geysers, most of the power traveled even deeper, creating thousands of channels in the earth, and then fire began to shoot out from them like volcanic eruptions. The pillars of fire and water wove together, creating vast clouds of steam.
With this, the terrifying world collision finally came to an end. The two worlds were now stuck together like two people holding hands.
At the same time, the Ning Beast phantom retreated to the Rosecloud Domain.
With the phantom gone, the Rosecloud Domain suddenly began to move, the half-sphere seemingly developing a life of its own. The impact site began to change, a giant fissure opening in the center of the Transverse Range. Outcrops of rock began to grow from the sides of the fissure in row after row. If one were observing all this from a distance, it would seem as if someone was drawing a mouth for this planet. First there was the mouth, and then the teeth, and the mouth opened wider and wider until it could devour mountains, and finally, it took a bite at the Blood River Domain…
Yes, this was the real form of domain merging. The devouring of the Ning Beast was too slow and expensive, whereas this was domain merging in the real sense. When migrating the domain, the Ning Beast was the horse pulling the carriage. When merging domains, the Ning Beast was the soul controlling the domain.
At this stage, there was no stopping the domain merging. At the moment of linking, the Rosecloud Domain had brazenly assigned the Blood River Domain the role of food that should be devoured. But the Blood River Domain was far too big, and to consume this “food” that was almost as large as its “body” would take an extremely long time.
This was why this was the only chance the Blood River Domain had to counterattack.
The vast size of the domain-merging formation meant that it had many nodes whose destruction could affect the formation, and if enough nodes were destroyed, the entire formation would be finished. The mutual repulsion between the two worlds would make them separate again.
This was Blood River’s last and only hope.
Here was when the middle- and low-level cultivators came into play.
The battlefield was too big for the powerhouses to concern themselves with each and every battlefield, unless they attacked without distinction between enemies and allies. Moreover, they also had to protect the core of the formation so the powerhouses of Blood River wouldn’t go and destroy it.
Thus, in this battle of two domains, numerous cultivators were deployed.
They flew off to the opposing side from various directions, landing at varying locations. Once the two worlds were linked, they were so close together that the Blood River Domain could no longer reject Rosecloud’s “kiss”, and Rosecloud could no longer reject Blood River’s “embrace”.
Vicious battles began to play out in the intersecting space of the two worlds.
Various groups of cultivators, puppets, and fiend beasts were locked in brutal combat.
The twinkling formation eyes became the source of conflict over which the cultivators of two worlds fought. Occasionally, explosions of blood would bloom in the air, but rather than falling, this blood would simply hang in the air. Under the effect of certain spell arts, some of these blood flowers were even able to maintain their form.
However, some of the blood would fall in the direction of the Blood River Domain.
This was a very weird sight. While flames, stones, trees, and oceans were all floating in the air, only the blood was falling toward the Blood River Domain.
Standing on the roof of the Hall of Divine Conference, Tang Jie saw all this and smiled. “Old Blood River, you think I can’t see your tricks?”
This was clearly the work of the Lord of the Blood River. He had been badly wounded in his battle with Yun Tianlan and had now hidden himself away, absorbing blood in order to recover his energy.
Just when Tang Jie was about to intervene, Yun Tianlan suddenly said, “Pay it no mind.”
“Ancestor?” Tang Jie looked to him.
Yun Tianlan explained, “I heavily injured Blood River, so it will take some time for him to recover. Even if he does recover, I will be able to deal with him. Our first priority is to complete the domain merging. Blood River’s cultivators are crazily attacking the formation eyes, and each formation eye destroyed will slow down the domain merging. I need to stand guard over the central core, and the other Earth Immortals have their own mission, and even if one or two of them were free, they wouldn’t be able to affect the overall situation much. The Lord of the Blood River is the manifestation of the Blood River and has the power to teleport, so he can transport cultivators for a sneak attack. This is a harsh challenge for our cultivators, and in order to avoid severe losses, you should go and assist them.”
Tang Jie considered this. “You can leave this matter to me, then.”
With a wave of his hand, a large amount of essence left his body, each ball of blood turning into a clone through the Reflections of Floating Life. Unlike before, he had put more blood and flesh into creating these clones, such that there were only a hundred-some of them.
But these hundred-some Tang Jie clones were all at the peak of Celestial Heart, and they flew off to various parts of the battlefield.
Tang Jie was a little pale after using so much essence blood.
Still, he had more to do. As he took out the Mountain River State Diagram and unrolled it, countless Wuxing emerged from it.
After countless years of recovery, the devastated Wuxing had flourished once more, and through this rebirth from the ashes, the Wuxing had become a larger, stronger, and tougher race, producing more high-level cultivators and growing even closer to humans.
The desire to survive had made the entire race develop in a stronger direction. Of course, this was also because Tang Jie had taken their souls and refused to let them fall into the Nether Domain. Otherwise, the flourishing of the Wuxing would have been very difficult, let alone this evolution.
The gathered Wuxing prostrated to Tang Jie.
Tang Jie’s will was instantly transmitted to the minds of every Wuxing, informing them of their mission.
“Go and do your duty. Protect the formation eyes with everything you have.”
After sending off the Wuxing, Tang Jie began to sow beans.
These beans had been unable to keep up with Tang Jie’s cultivation, and several hundred bean soldiers couldn’t even defeat a single Celestial Heart cultivator, so he had stopped using them. But Tang Jie’s Dao Arts and the current battlefield situation had given them new purpose.