Chapter 1023: The Arrival Of The War Between Emperors
The Ancestor of Wisdom had been defeated. The two Progenitors were eternal and indestructible gods in the eyes of the Reapers. Yet now, one of them had actually been defeated.
When the news spread, the very heavens collapsed for the Wisdom Faction of the Reaper race. Many of the top King-ranked clans refused to believe it and went to verify it themselves.
In the end, however, it was confirmed that the Ancestor of Wisdom had indeed been defeated. However, no one knew where the Ancestor of Wisdom had gone.
Rumors circulated that some Human Immortal Emperors had ambushed the Ancestor of Wisdom during the fierce battle with the new Ancestor of Strength, severely wounding him and forcing him to flee. He had supposedly gone into hiding within the Realm of Ruins.
Such rumors reignited the war between the humans and the Reapers, pushing the conflict to a new climax. But the Reapers’ former glory had already dimmed. The scales of war continued to tilt toward the humans.
Many Reaper Kings were defeated, and their ancestral lands fell under human control. The once lofty Reaper nobles were now forced to lower their heads and beg for survival from the very human slaves they had once oppressed.
A sweeping humanization movement had shattered the backbone of the Reaper race. The Reapers of today were no longer the brutal and savage beings of their ancestors’ time. To Li Xiaofei, it felt as if the once world-dominating banner riders had degenerated into bird-walkers of the late Qing era. The contrast stirred deep emotion in his heart.
The Reaper-occupied territories continued to shrink as many King-ranked Reaper clans had no choice but to abandon their ancestral homes and migrate toward the Realm of Ruins.
Meanwhile, the human resistance forces kept growing stronger. Li Xiaofei’s name was repeatedly brought up throughout this process. This was especially true of the experimental continents, where he had long been worshipped as a divine being, Li Xiaofei had become the most revered true god in the hearts of countless people.
With Zhu Zhixun and others continuing to spread his story, even the humans in the Ancestor Court star system came to know what Li Xiaofei had done for them. They learned that it was because he had ventured deep into the Realm of Ruins and uncovered the inheritance of the Sword Immortal that the nearly extinguished flames of resistance had reignited, allowing them to shed their status as slaves.
Even Liu Shaji, now hailed as the number one war god of the resistance, had publicly acknowledged Li Xiaofei countless times, calling him the Restoration Father of the human resistance in the Ancestor Court star system.
Li Xiaofei frequently appeared and intervened in the battles that followed. Whenever he acted, the outcome of the battle would be decided in an instant. Thousands of level twelve and thirteen Reapers fell. Countless King-ranked clans were defeated.
