Sects that were further away fled immediately upon realizing something was amiss!
Those with lower cultivation were quickly annihilated by the arriving demon army, with only a few managing to escape temporarily.
The cultivators met extremely tragic ends.
As if to vent their accumulated grievances, the demons would not kill cultivators immediately after capturing them.
Instead, they would employ the most cruel and terrifying methods, letting the cultivators die slowly in despair!
It could be said to be a complete massacre!
Throughout the entire ordeal, the Four Demon Kings never made a move.
After all, these cultivators were simply too weak, not even worthy of their attention!
In fact, it wasn't just the Four Demon Kings; even the Demon Marshals and Demon Generals rarely intervened.
For cultivators in the Out-of-Body or Soul Splitting stages, the Shadow-level demons were more than enough.
However, the demon race was not indiscriminately slaughtering everywhere. Instead, they were moving with a clear objective in one direction.
The Eastern Wasteland's foremost sect, the Ascension Sect's headquarters!
Like the demon race, humanity was divided into four great wastelands: East, West, North, and South.
And the demon race's first target was to deal with the Ascension Sect!
Then, using the Ascension Sect as a stepping stone, the army would march directly towards the Southern, Western, and Northern great wastelands!
Once the four great sects were eliminated, the remaining humans would be mere fish on a chopping block!
As the demon army advanced, the reclusive great cultivators who usually hid themselves began to appear one by one.
However, these old monsters in the Soul Splitting or Body Integration peak stages were no match for the demon army...
A single move from a Demon General was enough to send them fleeing in disarray!
Soon, the news of the demon invasion completely spread throughout the Eastern Wasteland!
Cultivators who were not on the demon army's path, terrified, also fled towards the Ascension Sect.
At this moment, the Ascension Sect was no longer just a powerful sect; it had become their spiritual pillar!
Their last hope in their hearts...
Because it was rumored that within the Ascension Sect resided legendary old monsters at the Tribulation Crossing stage!
Tribulation Crossing stage!
The pinnacle of the cultivator hierarchy!
The foremost existence below the immortal realm!
If even these old monsters could not hold the line, then there would be no safe place left in the human realm...
After about half a month, the Demon Kings ordered the advance to slow down.
The demons were puzzled, but no one dared to ask.
The hierarchy within the demon race was far more rigid than in the human race.
Asking questions carelessly could cost one's life...
"Elder Brother?" the Southern Demon King approached, puzzled, "Why have we suddenly slowed our march?"
If they had advanced at full speed, they would have reached the Ascension Sect soon.
Also, when the Demon Generals fought the Body Integration stage cultivators earlier, the Demon Kings had also ordered them to deliberately hold back.
This seemed completely unnecessary to the Southern Demon King.
"After all, the human realm is vast," the Eastern Demon King smiled faintly. "If we were to search everywhere, wouldn't it take a lot of time and effort?"
The Southern Demon King nodded in realization.
So that's how it was...
They were deliberately letting some humans escape so they could spread the news.
At this moment, humans would undoubtedly be flocking towards the Ascension Sect.
Once a sufficient number of humans had gathered, they could be wiped out in one fell swoop!
A month later.
Ascension Sect headquarters.
As the Eastern Wasteland's foremost sect, the Ascension Sect's territory was naturally immense.
Without exaggeration, their headquarters was several times larger than the territory of some countries!
Accommodating the fleeing cultivators was not an issue.
By the time these cultivators reached the Ascension Sect, fewer than one in ten remained!
Although the demon race had been heading directly for the Ascension Sect, they had also dispatched many Shadow-level and even Demon General-level demons to create random massacres.
Take the Demon Generals, for instance.
With a single strike, an entire city would vanish!
Truly terrifying!
The flight speed of the Demon Generals was also incredibly fast!
In just one or two months, cultivators throughout the Eastern Wasteland had been almost wiped out!
At this moment, the Eastern Wasteland was littered with the corpses of cultivators, the ground practically soaked! The Great Winds Novel.
It was no exaggeration to call it a living hell!
The entire Eastern Wasteland was shrouded in desolation and despair!
In fact, the Ascension Sect had already received news earlier.
The reason they had not proactively attacked was that they were too busy.
Although less than one in ten cultivators from other regions had survived, their sheer numbers were still immense.
Just receiving and arranging these people required significant effort.
There was also the matter of setting up defenses, such as formations and mechanisms.
These things naturally couldn't stop the powerful demons, but they were more effective against ordinary demons.
After arranging the last batch of arriving cultivators, the Sect Master of the Ascension Sect arrived at the mountain gate.
At this moment, behind him was not just a sect headquarters, but the last spark and hope of the human race's cultivators!
Even if he had to die today, he would defend it!
But honestly, he had no confidence whatsoever...
His cultivation was indeed high.
Peak Mahayana stage.
An existence ordinary cultivators dared not look up to.
But he now clearly knew that his cultivation was utterly insufficient...
Let alone the terrifying Demon Kings.
Even a random Demon Marshal could instantly kill him.
The chance of winning this battle was absolutely zero...
The world believed that the Ascension Sect had great cultivators at the Tribulation Crossing stage.
In reality, there had been some in the past.
However, those seniors, sensing that tribulation was imminent, had gone into seclusion to focus on their cultivation.
As for where they were now, even he did not know...
People had also been sent to the Western and Northern great wastelands to request reinforcements.
Whether they could hold out until the reinforcements arrived was uncertain.
Even if they did come...
The Sect Masters of the other three great sects were on par with him in strength, so there wasn't much to expect...
It could be said that this was the greatest disaster in the history of cultivation!
During the last demon invasion, terrifying existences like the Demon Kings had not appeared.
Even so, it had brought about an extremely terrible disaster for humanity.
In that battle, almost all the top-tier cultivators had perished!
This included a large number of peak Tribulation Crossing stage great cultivators!
But now, even the Four Demon Kings had appeared...
For humanity, this was an unprecedented catastrophe!
A world-ending disaster!!!
Perhaps after this battle, humanity would completely disappear from the river of history...
Despair completely engulfed the Sect Master of the Ascension Sect.
"Wei Wuji, Wei Wuji, what's the use of thinking about these things now..." the Sect Master of the Ascension Sect muttered to himself, "What must be faced, must ultimately be faced..."
After murmuring, Wei Wuji looked up at the sky.
Ascension was the ultimate dream of every cultivator.
And in the history of the cultivation world, there had indeed been some instances of successful ascension.
Ascending and becoming an immortal!
But the existence of immortals felt too distant to him...
For example, those seniors who had successfully ascended had never reappeared in the cultivation world.
What was the immortal realm like? What happened to them after they went there...
He knew nothing about any of it.
Some cultivators would naively assume that since those seniors had ascended from human to immortal status, they would certainly not stand idly by if humanity faced a disaster in the future.
Wei Wuji remained noncommittal about such claims.
He even harbored doubts!
If that were truly the case, why had the immortals not appeared until now?!
The cultivation world was on the verge of destruction, and they intended to watch idly?
Perhaps...
They wouldn't even spare it a glance...
Just like how they, the so-called cultivators, treated ordinary people who couldn't cultivate...
At this moment, Wei Wuji suddenly found it rather amusing.
Normally, they, the cultivators, felt superior and looked down upon mortals with disdain.
But when faced with the brink of life and death, they realized they were no different from them...
Indeed...
Were they not also those cultivators who had climbed up step by step from the status of ordinary people...
In essence, there was no fundamental difference...
And as Wei Wuji indulged in his absurd thoughts, dark clouds gathered on the horizon!
The demon army!
They had arrived!!!