Wu Shattered Star River

The entrance to the Northern Heavenly Domain is located within a Heavenly River. This Heavenly River isn't large, only allowing a few hundred cultivators to enter or exit at a time.

The Southern Domain spent a great deal of time and resources arranging many powerful arrays within this Heavenly River, requiring a long time to break through. Furthermore, the Southern Domain's cultivators can enter the Heavenly River to fight, receiving enhancements within.

Currently, the Azure God Tree is also present, capable of concealing itself within the arrays, further solidifying the defense and extending the duration of resistance.

This Heavenly River is the Southern Domain's final line of defense. If the Heavenly River is breached, the Central Domain's army can drive straight in, invading the Southern Domain and flattening it.

The decision to defend at the Heavenly River stems from the Seven Ancestors' desire to prevent further casualties among the Southern Domain's strong cultivators.

The Southern Domain's internal strife resulted in the deaths of too many Dao Ancestor Realm cultivators, causing significant damage to its vitality. Consequently, they had to abandon all strongholds in the Heavenly Domain and retreat to the Heavenly River.

Normally, if the Central Domain doesn't dispatch experts above the seventh level, it would be difficult for just the twenty Dao Ancestor Realm cultivators to break through the Heavenly River, even if they could, it would take at least half a year.

Half a year should be enough time for the Northern and Western Domains to react, right?

Orders were rapidly transmitted, and the armies at each stronghold immediately evacuated, quickly leaving the Heavenly Domain and retreating to the Southern Domain.

However, the Seven Ancestors still left a small number of troops scattered near the Heavenly River to contain, interfere with, and scout out the enemy's situation.

The evacuation was swift. In just five days, all the armies had completed their withdrawal, relinquishing all major strongholds.

The Seven Ancestors decided to recuperate for a period of time, ceding the Heavenly Domain strongholds to the Central Domain, intending to counterattack and reclaim them when their strength increased in the future.

Jiang Han has been asleep for over ten days, yet shows no signs of waking up.

Now, not only is Qing Ning anxious, but Ye Wanqiu is also worried. The Seven Ancestors, the Heavenly Ape Tribe King, and Ancestor God Flame have all come to investigate, but discovered that there are no major issues with Jiang Han's soul.

He has merely fallen into a deep sleep, or… perhaps he has chosen to sleep, unwilling to wake up?

Jiang Han was taken to Holy Ape City, a large city north of the Southern Domain. This city is the holy city of the Heavenly Ape Tribe, not far from the Heavenly Domain entrance, requiring only an incense stick's worth of time to teleport.

Qing Ning followed him back to Holy Ape City, along with Qing Xueyun.

Qing Ning and Qing Xueyun's combat power isn't strong, making their presence there insignificant. After all, as the Empress, she naturally had to return to oversee the rear. Ye Wanqiu was left behind, as her divine abilities could be of great assistance in group battles.

After Qing Ning returned, she continued to guard Jiang Han's room all day, which left Qing Xueyun somewhat speechless.

Qing Ning is, after all, a woman. What is it to be guarding a man all day? If this were to spread, it would greatly damage Qing Ning's prestige.

However, Qing Ning stubbornly refused to leave, and Qing Xueyun couldn't possibly forcibly drag her away, could she?

She could only dismiss the servants and personally guard the outside alone, preventing any cultivators from approaching, thus preventing the leakage of information.

Another five days passed, and Cang Min led a group of Dao Ancestor Realm experts into the Heavenly Domain, and then the Central Domain's army moved.

Tens of millions of troops launched a full-scale attack, easily taking over the major strongholds within the Heavenly Domain.

A group of Dao Ancestor Realm experts led the army, pressing forward and quickly gathering all their experts at the Southern Emperor Stronghold, a large stronghold near the Heavenly River.

The buildings within the Southern Emperor Stronghold hadn't been destroyed. Cang Min sat in a palace with the nineteen Dao Ancestor Realm experts, discussing the matter of attacking the Southern Domain.

"Reporting to Fifth Elder!"

A Holy Lord walked in and reported, "It has been scouted. The arrays on the Heavenly River have been activated, and there are Dao Ancestor Realm experts lurking within. The Southern Domain is likely preparing to defend the Heavenly River to the death."

Cang Min sat expressionlessly, as this situation was within his expectations.

"Scout again!"

Cang Min waved his hand, and the Holy Lord retreated. Cang Min glanced at all the Dao Ancestor Realm experts and said, "His Majesty has issued an edict. This time, we must go all out. If we can destroy the Southern Domain, that would be the best. Even if we can't destroy them, we must at least kill over half of their Dao Ancestor Realm experts, causing them to suffer a complete loss of vitality, unable to recover for tens of thousands of years."

A Dao Ancestor Realm expert stood up and asked, "Fifth Elder, if we attack with all our strength this time, will the Northern, Western, and Eastern Domains send troops to reinforce them?"

"You don't need to worry about that!"

Cang Min waved his hand and said, "His Majesty will personally oversee the Northern Domain. If Yao Ao dares to move, we will give him a good show. The Western Domain suffered a great loss of vitality last time, will they dare to come out this time? As for the Eastern Domain, haha… a bunch of trash, it's not worth mentioning."

"Hmm…"

A group of experts became excited. The Central Domain's Great Emperor is personally stationed in the north, so even if the Northern Domain mobilizes its entire army, it will be useless.

If the Western and Eastern Domains don't send experts to reinforce and contain them, then they will have no pressure at all.

The Southern Domain has only about twenty Dao Ancestor Realm experts in total. They lost so many high-level experts this time, such as Qing Xuefeng, Bing Mei, You Li, and Black Mountain Old Ghost.

The Southern Domain doesn't have many strong experts now, and most of the Dao Ancestor Realm experts are at the second, third, or fourth level. Their overall strength exceeds that of the Southern Domain.

As long as the other three domains don't contain them, as long as they have time, they are confident in attacking the Southern Domain.

Destroying the Southern Domain will not only eliminate a competitor, but also gain a large piece of land and a large amount of resources.

With this rise and fall, they can destroy the Eastern or Western Domain next time, eventually unifying the entire Land of Extreme Winter.

"Rest for a day!"

Cang Min stood up and said, "After one day, everyone will go to the Heavenly River and take turns fighting. This battle must produce a result, otherwise we won't be able to explain it to His Majesty!"

"Understood!"

A group of Dao Ancestor Realm experts stood up and took their orders, then dispersed.

One day later, countless ice ships soared from the Southern Emperor Stronghold, flying towards the Heavenly River. After only flying for half an hour, they arrived at the Heavenly River.

The Heavenly River is very long, traversing the void. The Heavenly River is not large, and it is filled with rolling black mist, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

Although the Heavenly River is very long, the entrance is only located on the southern section, so going to the northern Heavenly River is meaningless.

The black mist is even denser in the southern section. Even if Cang Min is standing nearby, he cannot detect any situation inside, not even the aura of living beings.

Cang Min stood on the deck of the largest ice ship, with nineteen Dao Ancestor Realm experts lined up behind him. Cang Min glanced around and waved his hand, "Go scout the situation!"

Several thousand cultivators from an ice ship immediately shot out. Among these thousands of cultivators, there was one Holy Lord and three Heavenly Emperors. Their purpose in entering was to scout the situation. None of the thousands of cultivators planned to return, only to cover the Holy Lord.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh!"

The Holy Lord led the three Heavenly Emperors and thousands of cultivators, rushing in. As soon as they entered the Heavenly River, they seemed to have entered another world, completely disappearing.

Half an incense stick, one incense stick, three incense sticks!

None of the thousands of cultivators, the Holy Lord, or the Heavenly Emperors came out. Cang Min frowned tightly. Since they hadn't come out for so long, they should all be dead inside.

Cang Min turned his gaze to a sixth-level Dao Ancestor Realm expert and said, "Patriarch Fan Tian, please take five Dao Ancestor Realm experts in to take a look first. If the situation is not right, immediately crush the jade talisman to notify this seat!"

"Alright!"

Fan Tian cupped his fist and led five Dao Ancestor Realm experts, flying out and rushing into the Heavenly River.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

Soon, the Heavenly River churned, and waves of fluctuations spread out. It was clear that the Southern Domain had Dao Ancestor Realm experts lurking inside, and the two sides had already started fighting.