Chapter 267 : The Western Spirit Domain
Chapter 267: The Western Spirit Domain
Meanwhile, in the Northern Spirit Domain, after learning from Zhang Ergou that everyone in the Northern Spirit Domain cultivated immortality, Zhang Qingrou was deeply shocked.
Looking at the light shining in Zhang Ergou's eyes, as well as the busy pedestrians on the streets,
they were nothing like the mortals of the Western Spirit Domain, who were ragged and emaciated. Every person here was strong and sturdy, and all of them carried hope for the future.
Everywhere resembled a paradise. Seeing this, Zhang Qingrou suddenly felt that perhaps there was nothing wrong with everyone cultivating immortality and everyone understanding reason.
At the very least, the people here had enough to eat, and they were all able to cultivate immortality.
Zhang Qingrou also wondered that if the Western Spirit Domain had been like the Northern Spirit Domain, perhaps her parents and siblings would not have starved to death while fleeing the famine.
Perhaps her parents would even have cultivated immortality and been able to witness everything in the cultivation world together with her.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qingrou slowly lowered her hands. Memories of the past surged into her heart, causing her to clutch her chest.
Unfortunately, there was no such thing as "if." Reality could not be changed. Her family had long since remained forever in the Western Spirit Domain.
“What's wrong?”
At that moment, the Celestial Spirit also noticed Zhang Qingrou's emotions and could not help asking.
“It's nothing. I just remembered some painful things.”
Zhang Qingrou regained her composure, shook her head, and replied.
“Based on my perception and observations, this place is indeed exactly as you were thinking. There isn't the slightest trace of any Evil Demons.”
The Celestial Spirit revealed the results of its investigation.
“What? No Evil Demons? Not even the slightest aura?”
Zhang Qingrou was extremely surprised upon hearing this.
After all, Evil Demons were currently ravaging the land. Even the Sacred Lands and great sects of the Western Spirit Domain were unable to suppress them. Those places were guarded by Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators, yet even they had been affected.
Although Zhang Qingrou had imagined the strength of the person who created the Path of Cultivation, she had never dared imagine that such an existence had completely wiped out every Evil Demon throughout the entire Northern Spirit Domain.
But if that was not the explanation, then how had he managed to make the entire Northern Spirit Domain free of even a single Evil Demon?
“This shouldn't be possible!”
“Surely the Evil Demons didn't voluntarily abandon the Northern Spirit Domain!”
Faced with something that completely overturned her understanding of the world, Zhang Qingrou felt utterly helpless.
“Come on, let's go farther in. I refuse to believe it.”
Zhang Qingrou no longer cared about anything else. She also wanted to find the answer within the Northern Spirit Domain.
Just as Zhang Qingrou continued venturing deeper into the Northern Spirit Domain in search of the answer,
Li Tianwei, however, was heading in the exact opposite direction, making his way toward the Western Spirit Domain.
The instant he broke through the world barrier and entered the Western Spirit Domain, Li Tianwei sensed that the Spiritual Energy he had previously been able to control completely had disappeared.
Everything seemed to have returned to the way the Northern Spirit Domain had once been, though that was of little consequence to Li Tianwei.
Li Tianwei merely paid the Spiritual Energy a brief glance before immediately raising his head toward the heavens.
There, beyond the cover of the white clouds, a gigantic eye gazed down through the clouds, watching everything below.
At that moment, it seemed as though everything in the world had fallen under the gaze of that Heavenly Eye.
“This aura... it feels so familiar!”
As Li Tianwei looked at the Heavenly Eye in the sky, that was the very first thought that came to his mind.
Unfortunately, no matter how thoroughly he searched through his memories, he still could not determine where that sense of familiarity came from.
If Li Tianwei had opened his eyes while breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, he probably would have understood why it felt so familiar.
The Red Pupil back then had been similar to the Demon Lord currently suspended above the Western Spirit Domain. Since Li Tianwei had completely absorbed that Red Pupil, it was only natural for him to find it familiar.
“However, this eyeball seems to be nothing more than a projection.”
With Li Tianwei's current strength, he was naturally able to sense the condition of the eye suspended in the sky.
It was clearly just a projection, yet the mere fact that someone could leave such an eye hanging above the Western Spirit Domain demonstrated just how terrifying the power behind it truly was.
“An existence beyond the Tribulation Transcendence Realm... an Evil Demon comparable to an immortal?”
Looking at that eye, this thought naturally arose in Li Tianwei's mind.
Unfortunately, there was no answer. Evil Demons were simply too bizarre. They were beings that had already left Li Tianwei confused more than once.
Soon, Li Tianwei's consciousness slowly spread outward.
Rumble...
In an instant, Li Tianwei's terrifying Divine Sense encompassed an unknown number of tens of thousands of miles.
Everything within the Western Spirit Domain gradually entered his consciousness.
“I never expected the situation here to be this severe.”
Through the perception of his Divine Sense, Li Tianwei instantly understood the current state of the Western Spirit Domain.
Heaven and earth had already become completely corrupted. The lingering souls and stray thoughts originally left behind by all living beings drifting throughout heaven and earth were continuously multiplying under some unknown force.
As a result, terrifying existences had come into being.
Within a region of merely ten thousand miles, it had already become like hell itself, where horrors even more terrifying than evil ghosts were running rampant.
“Sun–Moon Banner, come forth! Illuminate everything in this world!”
Li Tianwei raised his hand, and the Sun–Moon Banner appeared out of thin air. The banner, bearing the sun on one side and the moon on the other, fluttered gently.
A faint rosy glow and moonlight emerged, soaring straight into the heavens.
After receiving Li Tianwei's command, the consciousness of the Sun–Moon Wheel—or rather, the Sun–Moon Banner now—began to operate.
With the immortal artifact, the Sun–Moon Wheel, having completely fused with the soul banner, the Sun–Moon Banner was able to function on its own even without Li Tianwei controlling it personally.
That was the terrifying aspect of an immortal artifact.
Ordinarily speaking, one would need at least the strength of an immortal to completely wield and control the spirit of an immortal artifact.
But for Li Tianwei, rules and strength were nothing more than lies.
After all, wasn't the Sun–Moon Wheel incredibly obedient?
Wasn't it perfectly normal for a Nascent Soul cultivator like him to wield an immortal artifact?
Very soon, under the operation of the Sun–Moon Banner, countless Evil Souls surged out with deafening howls.
Ever since the Path of Cultivation had spread throughout the Northern Spirit Domain, most matters there had already been settled.
As a result, the Evil Souls Li Tianwei had previously refined had long since returned.
Countless Evil Souls poured forth, blotting out the sky and covering the earth as they spread toward every corner of heaven and earth.
The number of Evil Souls within the Sun–Moon Banner had increased by an unknown multiple.
After all, when the Path of Cultivation had first been spread, all the cultivators throughout the Northern Spirit Domain who had stepped onto the path of cultivation had waged a war that swept across the entire land against the cultivators of the old order in order to shatter the former world.
No one knew just how many people had died during that time.
Naturally, Li Tianwei had not spared those burdened with sin.
The only thing he could do was allow them to remain within the banner, where they could thoroughly cleanse themselves of their sins and accumulate Merit.
For this purpose, Li Tianwei had continuously refined souls without pause, and the number within the banner had already reached nearly one hundred million.
Every single one of them was burdened with sin.
That was precisely why the Sun–Moon Banner possessed such overwhelming power.