Chapter 319 - 283: Ten Years in the Western Regions
News of Xiao Mo’s demise spread like wildfire throughout the Western Regions.
No matter who heard it, their initial reaction to Xiao Mo’s demise was utter disbelief. They all thought it was fake news.
They simply couldn’t fathom it.
How could such an unrivaled man have fallen just like that?
In their minds.
Whether they hated him or feared him.
No matter what emotions they harbored for Xiao Mo.
But everyone in the Western Regions shared one common understanding: Xiao Mo’s power was unequivocally the greatest since Ancient Times!
Everyone even believed that with his talent, it wasn’t impossible for Xiao Mo to step into the legendary Lost Second Realm.
After all, who had ever seen a Cultivator become invincible while still in the Immortal Realm?
They all believed that with his power, Xiao Mo should have ruled the Western Regions for tens of thousands of years.
And that until the day he died, no other Cultivator would dare raise their head to look directly upon his majesty!
’So, the rumors claimed Xiao Mo was dead?’
’How could Xiao Mo possibly die?’
’Who could have possibly killed him?’
But after making inquiries through various channels, they learned that it was all true.
That peerless Xiao Mo had actually gone against the Celestial Dao. In his attempt to merge his own rules into it, he had perished in both body and soul.
When the Cultivators of the Western Regions learned of this, they couldn’t help but sigh with deep emotion.
They didn’t understand why Xiao Mo had done it.
’Just being the Lord of the Western Regions was a great life, wasn’t it? Why did he have to throw away such a promising future?’
Regardless, the fact that Xiao Mo had defied the Celestial Dao to establish a new rule for the Western Regions elevated the respect most people had for him to a whole new level.
In the hearts of the common folk of the Mortal World, Xiao Mo was even seen as something akin to a Divine Spirit.
Many Mortal Dynasties in the Western Regions even began spontaneously erecting temples in his honor.
This was despite the fact that Xiao Mo had taken twenty percent of the lifespan from seventy percent of the people in the Western Regions.
But the rule he had established in its place would bring six thousand years of peace and stability to the Western Regions!
However, with Xiao Mo’s death, many Sects realized they finally had a chance to breathe.
Moreover, they realized that a great opportunity now lay before all the Sects of the Western Regions!
During his campaigns, Xiao Mo had swept across the lands, annihilating countless Sects and killing an unknown number of their leaders.
Xiao Mo hadn’t had time to consolidate his control over these conquered Sects.
Though for many of the Sects he destroyed, Xiao Mo would typically open their treasuries to reward his forces.
But he had destroyed so many Sects and seized so many treasures that many of them were never distributed as rewards. They were simply left untouched, as no one dared to lay a finger on them.
Beyond material treasures, Blessed Land Grotto Heavens were even rarer. It was incredibly difficult to find a location with such abundant Spiritual Power.
Because Xiao Mo’s conquests had created so much ownerless territory, many Cultivators had long been coveting these lands.
As for the Sects that had submitted to Xiao Mo, aside from the Major Sects that had used a Celestial Dao Scroll to swear an oath of loyalty with their Divine Souls, the vast majority had only pledged their allegiance verbally.
After all, a Celestial Dao Scroll was an incredibly precious item. The oaths sworn upon it were linked directly to the Celestial Dao; it wasn’t something just any nobody could use.
For all these reasons, Xiao Mo’s death was like the collapse of a Demon-locking Tower.
Many factions, from the Demon Sects to the Buddhist Sect, were re-established, and they began competing with other Sects for the ownerless territories.
Some Cultivators who had received rewards from Xiao Mo and broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm simply gathered followers and founded their own Sects.
Furthermore, with no top-tier powerhouses of the Ascension Realm left in the Western Regions, and the various Immortal Realm Cultivators preoccupied with post-war affairs, these lesser Cultivators grew even bolder.
None of this, however, concerned the common people of the Mortal World.
Besides, most Cultivators in the Western Regions now dared not practice the Evil Techniques that fed on the flesh, blood, and Divine Souls of others.
Overall, the Western Regions, even in this turbulent post-war period, were more stable than they had been in ordinary times before.
As for the Wandao Sect in the wake of Xiao Mo’s death…
When the Cultivators of the Wandao Sect learned of Xiao Mo’s death, most of them were filled with deep unease.
They had once been so full of hope for their future.
After all, they had been with Sect Leader Xiao ever since he became the Sect Leader of the Wandao Sect.
They hadn’t even fled when the Wandao Sect was besieged.
Through their Sect Leader’s conquests, the Wandao Sect had become the number one Sect, with even the other Nine Great Demon Sects submitting to them.
As disciples of the Wandao Sect, they had naturally reaped considerable benefits.
But they never expected that not long after the Wandao Sect became the number one Sect in the Western Regions, it would fall into decline so suddenly…
Decline was one thing, but the main problem was that their Sect Leader had offended far too many Sects and Cultivators during his lifetime.
Their Sect Leader had practically turned the entire Western Regions upside down.
The Cultivators of the Wandao Sect were terrified of being besieged by the entire Western Regions, especially by the Buddhist Sect.
In their eyes, the Buddhist Sect and Sect Leader Xiao were mortal enemies.
Now that their Sect Leader was gone, the Buddhist Sect would surely vent its rage on the Wandao Sect.
But as time went on, they noticed something.
The Buddhist Sect hadn’t come to make trouble for the Wandao Sect.
The disciples of the Wandao Sect had indeed heard rumors that the Buddhist Sect wanted to launch a counterattack to take revenge.
However, due to the opposition of Abbot Xujing of Kongnian Temple and Wangxin, the Buddhist Sect had to drop the matter.
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