Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

The entire Great Qi was occupied by powerful feudal lords in the four directions of east, west, south, and north, while the Qishan Road blocked the center of the territory.

This distribution of power caused countless talented and ambitious people to worry about how the court, besieged on all sides, would cope if the feudal lords launched a rebellion.

One after another, ambitious individuals submitted memorials, hoping that the court would take strong and effective measures to weaken the power of the feudal lords and maintain the proper balance.

Memorials to the emperor flew into the palace like snowflakes, only to be discarded in the storerooms like trash.

Both the imperial family of Daqi and the officials in the court were well aware of this.

The once mighty kingdom that dominated the entire Tianqi Domain is now a thing of the past. All they need to do is maintain the status quo and prevent the existing balance from being broken.

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In the eighteenth year of Qiming, the second naval legion of Yinji Domain arrived in the South Seas and stopped at the junction of the South Seas and the islands of the South Suspended Sea.

The Yin-Yang Domain Navy was divided into dozens of branches, which arrived one after another, with a total force of over 400,000.

Its main force was deployed in the Pearl Islands in the southern sea, where ports were built for subsequent troops to be stationed.

Upon learning the news, Daqi gathered troops in Changzhou, Fanzhou, Qingzhou, and Yazhou, located in the southern part of Tianqi Domain, and began to deploy defenses.

In the four provinces, the Great Qi Dynasty carried out a large-scale conscription.

Thousands of students from the Datongdao sect resigned from their posts before the sect's leader, Wan Shu. The students enthusiastically joined the army, eager to dedicate themselves to the country and realize their ambitions on the battlefield.

The Cloud Sky Battle Group is also stationed above Changzhou, ready to engage in battle with the Yin-Yang Domain army at any time.

The four prefectures of Changzhou, Fanzhou, Qingzhou, and Yazhou held a meeting and decided to rebuild Biyi Island as quickly as possible.

With Biyi Island as its core, Daqi will build its first line of defense at sea.

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October of the eighteenth year of Qiming.

Even with the full support of Jun Cheng'an, Meng Yan, and others, Emperor Qiwen, who was severely injured in the Ten Thousand Demons Extermination Formation eighteen years ago, was unable to maintain his Heavenly Fruit status.

On the last day of October, Emperor Qiwen fell from his realm and transformed into the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

On that day, the literary sage Meng Yan sat silently in the Wenchang Hall, gazing in the direction of the Four Symbols Mountain.

Since records began, Emperor Qiwen was the first terrestrial immortal to fall from his realm and ultimately pass away despite receiving effective rescue.

First, his disciple Qin Sheng voluntarily shattered his Dao, and then Emperor Qiwen died under mysterious circumstances.

Considering the illogical behavior of Xuanling Bodhisattva and Mu An, Meng Yan guessed some of the truth.

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March of the nineteenth year of the Qiming era.

The thirty-two demon kingdoms of the Yin Yin Domain signed an alliance treaty at the sacred demonic land of Tianmo Mountain, establishing the Demonic Alliance, Tianmo Alliance.

The alliance stipulated that the thirty-two demon kingdoms would advance and retreat together, with the common goal of annexing the nine regions and bringing down the Heavenly Demon.

This is the first time such a large-scale and formal alliance has appeared in a cult that takes pride in betrayal.

The various demon kingdoms formed an alliance, jointly honoring the twelve demon lords and establishing twelve supreme positions.

Because of the attack that occurred in Qi'an City nineteen years ago, the two Demon Lords were killed by Mu Laomo, the number one demon in the Nine Realms.

There are now only ten of the twelve Demon Lords, with two seats still vacant.

Although the members of the Demonic Sect continued to act as they pleased, taking pleasure in beating up their teammates, they at least reached a relatively unified strategic consensus.

In May of the same year.

Forty large and small nations in the Yin-Yang Domain, who were in a weak position, convened an alliance, uniting with countless smaller forces to form the Hundred Nations Alliance.

Members of the Hundred Nations Alliance advance and retreat together; launching a war against any one of the Hundred Nations Alliance nations or forces will be considered a war against the entire Hundred Nations Alliance.

In March of the following year, the Heavenly Demon Alliance sent an army of over 500,000 to invade the mineral-rich Xu Kingdom, capturing sixteen cities in succession.

The following month, the Hundred Nations Alliance responded one after another, and neighboring countries provided assistance.

The two armies engaged in a fierce battle above the Death Whisper Plains.

The war lasted for a year, with both sides deploying more than a million troops each, leaving behind more than 700,000 corpses on the Death Whisper Plains.

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March of the twentieth year of Qiming.

While Mu An was comprehending the universe, he suddenly felt something and entered a long-awaited period of seclusion.

He had a premonition that this seclusion would last at least ten years.

On the day he emerges from seclusion, the Five Elements of the Nine Realms will be entirely under his control.

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The twenty-first year of the Qiming era.

In response to the "enthusiastic help" from the Yin Yin Domain, all the prominent demonic sects within the Great Qi territory formed an alliance and launched a massive blood sacrifice in Qingzhou, located in the heart of the Great Qi.

After 21 years of relentless suppression, the demonic forces within the Great Qi territory were like rats crossing the street, constantly hiding and fleeing.

The members of the evil cult, who have always lived a life of unbridled debauchery, have never suffered such humiliation.

They always kill whoever they don't like; even a glance from someone walking down the street can become a reason for them to kill.

Now, let alone other people's "unfriendly" looks, even if someone insults them to their face, they dare not make a move.

Is this even a human being's life?

I can't stand even a little bit!

As members of the demonic path, how can we tolerate such "evil"!

The anger that has accumulated over the long years is enough to burn everything.

One cannot become a god without being obsessed.

The mad and deranged cultists are never afraid of death. Their minds are filled with blood sacrifices, and they want to rise to the top in one step through blood sacrifice and become the new demon lord!

The two vacant Demon Lord positions became the ultimate goal for all the elites of the Demon Cult.

Over a period of ten years, encompassing almost all the major demonic cult forces in the Great Qi, and gathering the core strength of the demonic cults within the Great Qi territory, with the participation of more than fifty demonic cult celestial beings, this unprecedented "blood-red feast" was jointly devised.

As many as 300,000 elite members of the Demonic Cult have gathered in Qingzhou over the past decade.

Over the past decade, they have meticulously planned countless conspiracies, using deceptive tactics to replace thousands of key officials in Qingzhou, extending their reach to every corner of the state.

New Year's Eve of the 21st year of Qiming.

An unprecedented upheaval within the demonic cult erupted in Qingzhou.

A vast sea of ​​blood covered two-thirds of Qingzhou.

The sky, stretching for tens of thousands of miles, turned blood red. Crimson light shot down from the heavens, and thick blood-red mist enveloped the world. Everywhere visible to the naked eye was a blood-red expanse.

Thousands of large formations were activated simultaneously, and within just one hour, forty million people were reduced to piles of white bones, their flesh and blood becoming provisions for summoning the Heavenly Demon.

In all the places within Qingzhou covered by the blood sacrifice array, regardless of age, gender, or cultivation level, everyone was devoured in the sea of ​​blood and became food served on the table.

A huge hole was torn open in the sky, and the once prosperous city of Qingzhou was covered by a sea of ​​blood, where the demon cultists who participated were reveling in the blood.

The lives of forty million mortals broke through the world barrier of the Nine Realms, opening a blood-red passage to the unknown in the sky above Qingzhou.

As the passage opened, all the terrestrial immortals of the Nine Realms sensed it and looked in the direction of Qingzhou.