Time passed day by day. Broken Blade Canyon had remained silent since Ming Qi entered. Liu Chuan and the others guarding the canyon's entrance obeyed Ming Qi's instructions and did not withdraw, but their days were rather dull.
However, what Liu Chuan and the others were completely unaware of was that, throughout Xilan Province, and even in several other large provinces, more and more spiritual energy-dense areas similar to Broken Blade Canyon had appeared one after another, to the point where no one even cared about them.
A month later, a long, earth-shattering roar suddenly erupted from Broken Blade Canyon, and the entire earth began to tremble.
As the shaking intensified, the Luoyun Sect disciples at the canyon's entrance saw a continuous burst of terrifying radiant energy bursts from the sky above. These radiances were like blades and swords, darting between heaven and earth.
Before Liu Chuan and the others could react, they saw a blood-red shadow from the depths of the canyon rapidly flying towards the outside, accompanied by a piercing roar like thunder!
"Move!"
With just two words, the blood-red shadow flew into sight.
Liu Chuan's eyes narrowed, and he saw clearly that the one flying out was the Lord of Arbitration who had entered Broken Blade Canyon alone over a month ago.
But now, his entire body was shimmering with blinding blood, and a dying monster was clamped between his ribs. In his right hand, he held a flaming sword. Behind him, hundreds of hideous and terrifying monsters of various shapes and shapes pursued him frantically.
Liu Chuan shuddered, unable to muster any more thoughts. With a wave of his hand, he led all the Luoyun Sect disciples and fled towards the sect as quickly as possible.
This was no longer a battle they could intervene in. The only thing they could do was to rush back to the sect, report what they had seen to the higher-ups, and then pass it on to the higher-ups.
The changes in Broken Blade Canyon had finally erupted like a volcano, and a similar scene was unfolding in many locations across the Central Land.
From that moment on, the drums of war finally sounded for the Tianzui Camp's army to march into the Central Earth.
For Tianzui Camp's senior commander, who planned and commanded this war, this was merely a simple military exercise, devoid of any purpose!
Yes, for the Tianzui Camp, which openly challenged the gods of heaven and earth, waging war against mortal cultivators could only be described as a military exercise. For this group of monsters known as butchers, thugs, and lunatics, fighting mortal cultivators was at best the play of three or four-year-olds.
But despite this, for this simple military exercise, the Tianzui Camp had opened nearly a hundred space-time teleportation arrays across the Central Earth, deploying a large number of Martial King and Martial Saint-level warriors. Of course, alongside these Martial Kings and Martial Saints were countless warriors.
Broken Blade Valley, one of nearly a hundred space-time teleportation arrays, was led by a powerful demon in the middle stage of the Martial King realm and two ghosts in the early stage of the Martial King realm. The team consisted of a thousand cultivators of various races, all at the innate level.
Although Ming Qi's desire for war and bloodlust grew stronger, he knew he could not defeat such a large number of enemies. While they might become future allies, they were not currently in the picture.
And in the words of the Northern God, if you want to talk to these beings, labeled lunatics, villains, and butchers, you must first hurt them, preferably cripple them, or they will not listen to a single word you say.
At this moment, a silver torch, guarding a blood-soaked sun, flew high behind Ming Qi on a golden banner.
At this moment, the banner of the Dawn of Freedom finally flew over the Central Land!
Ming Qi continued to run furiously. The Ghost Clan Martial King Realm expert clamped between his ribs was already near death. The flickering soul flame within the skeleton's skull had lost its vitality and was slowly fading.
It was a skeleton devoid of any flesh and blood. Although its entire frame was shrouded in a robe of unknown material, the exposed bones were still a terrifying sight.
He was the first to pass through the time-space teleportation array, so Ming Qi had crippled him. If he hadn't considered him a valuable tonic, he would have strangled him and thrown him away.
Behind him, a six- to seven-meter-tall, giant-like Demon Clan expert and a skeleton shrouded in black smoke were pursuing him at lightning speed.
The Ghost Clan skeleton's movements were strangely erratic, its entire body swept through the air by the black rock, while the giant Demon Clan expert's strides were immense, leaving deep craters in the ground with every step.
The giant's strides were incredibly long. Although he was only on foot, he steadily outpaced the ghost skeleton.
In the sky behind the giant and the skeleton, a black mass of innate-level Heavenly Sin Warriors swarmed like locusts.
Though the Heavenly Sin Warriors' speed was already quite fast, the gap between them and the two powerful figures ahead continued to widen.
A sudden thought struck Ming Qi as he drew from a gap in his flight. The Supreme Mountain and Sea Map appeared before him. He then opened up space and directly tossed the captured skeleton into it.
The Supreme Mountain and Sea Map was severely damaged and required a vast amount of energy to repair, a process that would take a considerable amount of time. Therefore, Ming Qi intended to use all his future enemies to feed the map.
Although the rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth in Broken Blade Canyon could have repaired the map, he devoted all his time to the stone tablet in order to fully awaken the power of time and space within it.
Now the spatial teleportation array had finally opened, and with it, the rich spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth was absorbed, never to be leaked out again.
The good news was that after over a month, the stone tablet's temporal and spatial powers had been partially unlocked. While not fully awakened, the corresponding functions were present.
Therefore, whether he wanted to restore the divine map's spatial dimension or fully awaken the stone tablet, Ming Qi would need to personally source the vast amount of energy.
Ming Qi's Blood Shadow Step was too fast, and after the giants and ghost skeletons chased him for a distance, they lost ground to the Heavenly Sin Warriors behind them and ultimately gave up.
After escaping his pursuers, Ming Qi quickly flew towards the Immovable Heaven Gate, simultaneously invigorating his consciousness to refine the ghost skeletons within the divine map. However, to his surprise, he was stopped by the Northern God.
"This object is now very weak. You can try to erase the imprint within. Even if you can't, diluting it a little is a good thing."
It was clear that the Northern God was still very wary of those so-called important figures, otherwise he wouldn't have offered such advice.
Ming Qi nodded and began to disperse wisps of divine consciousness into the divine map to search.