Humans cultivated by refining the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to gain the ability to summon wind and rain. The demons relied on refining trees, flowers, and plants and the essence of the sun and moon to obtain powerful divine abilities. The growth of flowers, plants, and trees required the nourishment of spiritual energy. In other words, both humans and demons were inseparable from spiritual energy.

The ghosts, on the other hand, were born out of filthy energy. They absorbed the filthy energy between heaven and earth to grow stronger. They didn't need spiritual energy at all. They even hated spiritual energy. Therefore, wherever the ghosts passed, their spiritual veins would be destroyed and they would become a deathly filthy land. Without spiritual energy, everything would not grow long. Without spiritual energy, birds and beasts would be extinct. There was no spiritual energy left. Human cultivators were unable to cultivate, unable to absorb spiritual energy for a long time, and could even cause their realms to collapse. It was precisely because of this that the ghosts were able to invade nearly half of Star Continent. Wherever they passed, human cultivators fled and their expressions changed.

Of course, the fundamental incompatibility between the ghosts and humans made it impossible for them to coexist. Therefore, once the ghosts encountered humans, they would eat their souls. The only choice for xiuzhe who encountered ghosts was to resist. They would not stop until they died. The demon race was different. They could coexist with humans, and they did not eat divine souls. Thus, they would not encounter the deathly resistance of human cultivators like the ghost race. They could even rebel against human cultivators for their own use.

Heavenly Wolf City was destroyed by the ghosts. Other than those who managed to escape by luck, the rest of the human cultivators in the city had become delicious food for the ghosts. The spirit veins in the city had been destroyed, and the entire city had turned into a place of death with a deep ghost aura.

Every time the ghost army broke through a city square, they would first slaughter all the cultivators in the city, then destroy their spiritual veins, and then launch a campaign against the fleeing cultivators. With the city square as the center, the ghost army would be able to wipe out all the cultivators within a radius of a thousand kilometers.

Jing Shouren escaped from Heavenly Wolf City and hid in the mountains. After experiencing many dangers, he finally managed to get rid of the ghosts.

The mountain breeze blew past, and the yellow leaves that covered the sky drifted down ruthlessly, expressing an unspeakable depression and loneliness. Jing Shouren bent down and picked up a yellow maple leaf. His exhausted face was curtain down, and the 32 brothers behind him were speechless.

It was still late spring, but the leaves of the maple tree had already turned yellow. It was all because the ghosts had destroyed their spiritual veins. The spiritual energy in the air was obviously getting thinner and thinner, so thin that it could not be felt.

Jing Shouren raised his head and saw that the mountains were silent, his eyes bleak, and even the roars of spirit beasts became exceptionally desolate. Jing Shouren suddenly felt a chill run down his spine as he slowly turned around to look at the thirty-two exhausted brothers behind him.

When they escaped from Heavenly Wolf City, Jing Shouren still had nearly 300 people with him. Now, there were only 32 people left. Moreover, all of them were injured. Their magic treasures were badly damaged, and all of their spirit herbs and talismans had been exhausted. There weren't many spirit crystals left. If they continued to stay here, they wouldn't need to be searched by the ghosts, and they would have to die here.

"General, what should we do now?" A brother asked.

Jing Shouren was a Black Iron General who commanded a team of 5,000 men. In the battle in the middle of the Star Wolf Mountain Range, the human army was defeated. Silver Warrier Fang Yunshan led the defeated troops and retreated five thousand kilometers west. Jing Shouren and the main force separated and retreated to Heavenly Wolf City with five thousand of his subordinates. Soon, Heavenly Wolf City was destroyed by the ghosts. His five thousand troops and Heavenly Wolf City were annihilated, and only a few hundred people escaped.

The Heavenly Wolf City was occupied by the ghosts, and the north was almost all ghost territory. Now, they could only flee southwest and take a detour back to meet up with Fang Yunshan's main force.

"Head south and head to Heavenly Arch City!" Jing Shouren said in a heavy voice.

"General Jing, everyone says that Star Continent can't defend it anymore. Why don't we just cross the Realm River and go to Chongming Island like everyone else?"

Jing Shouren's face darkened. He was just about to reprimand them, but seeing the hopeful expressions on the faces of the brothers, he sighed in his heart. Indeed, according to the current situation, the fall of Star Continent was only a matter of time. Even Continent Master Luo Yang had fled to the west, so he could expect everyone to fight to the death?

"Let's go to Heavenly Arch City first before we make any plans. With our current strength, it is unknown whether we will be able to arrive at Heavenly Arch City safely, not to mention passing through the extremely dangerous and desolate lands of the continent's borders!" Jing Shouren said.

Everyone couldn't help but be sad when they heard this. General Jing was right. When they escaped, there were more than three hundred people. They had been hiding in the mountain range for nearly half a month. Of these, more than three hundred people had died. One of them was because of the ghost race's encirclement and suppression, while the other half was because of spirit beasts. Spiritual veins were destroyed, and spiritual energy became thinner and thinner. People could only rely on spirit crystals or beast crystals to maintain their absorption of spiritual energy. In this world that lacked spiritual energy, not only did cultivators go crazy, even spirit beasts went crazy. Nearly one third of the three hundred plus people died under the sharp claws and teeth of spirit beasts, and some of them were killed by other cultivators.

A Spirit Crystal would often attract death. In such a cruel environment, traveling tens of thousands of kilometers to reach Chongming Island safely was not an easy task. At least, Jing Shouren did not have the confidence to bring a group of wounded soldiers to accomplish such a magnificent feat.

"Let's go to Star City first. Let's see if we can get some supplies!" Jing Shouren said.

"Star City is several thousand miles away from here!" Someone muttered in a low voice.

"Cut the crap. Those who want to live, cheer up the fuck up!" Jing Shouren shouted.

The brothers couldn't help but tremble as they stood up, supporting their exhausted bodies. They released their similarly listless flying mounts and slowly flew towards Star City in the southwest direction.

At this moment, a sorrowful cry suddenly came from within the group. One of the cultivators' flying mounts was exhausted and fell down. This unlucky man was killed on the cliff on the spot.

Looking at the mangled corpse, Jing Shouren's face twitched. One of the QinBing whispered, "General, the flying mount doesn't have any spiritual energy to absorb. Its stamina is already severely exhausted. If this continues, more people will fall to their deaths. Little Huang's death is a fucking grievance!"

Right now, every spirit crystal was incomparably precious. Who would be willing to use it to feed a mount? But without a flying mount, not to mention traveling thousands of miles to Star Arch City, even climbing a few mountains could tire people to death.

Jing Shouren gritted his teeth and took out a few spirit crystals from his storage belt. He used his sword to cut open the spirit crystals. Each of them gave out a small piece and warned him sternly, "Feed your mount. You are not allowed to hide it privately!"

The brothers held a small piece of spirit crystal and gulped down their saliva with their eyes. They honestly fed the spirit crystal to the mount. There was nothing they could do about it. The tragic scene of that fellow falling to his death just now was vivid in their minds, and they did not want to be the second.

The flying mount had eaten the spirit crystal, and its strength had obviously recovered a little. It cheered up and continued to fly forward. However, as soon as the group flew more than ten li away, two extremely hungry Third Grade Griffins ferociously pounced out of the forest.

"Be careful!" Jing Shouren issued a sharp warning and drew out his sword.

The majority of Jing Shouren's subordinates were below the Spirit Condensation Stage. In addition, their injuries were mixed. How could they be two ferocious Third Grade Griffins' opponents? In just a few sprints, nearly ten people were killed and wounded. The two Griffins each grabbed two corpses and left contentedly.

There were only twenty of the thirty-two left!

Jing Shouren looked at the twenty brothers whose faces were pale and trembling, and his heart was filled with sorrow. At this moment, not to mention Heavenly Arch City, he feared that they would all be fed to spirit beasts within a hundred miles. Nowadays, spirit beasts are becoming more and more ferocious. In the past, they would not easily attack humans unless human cultivators took the initiative to provoke them, or if no one intruded into their territories.

"General, this is not the way to go on. We should find a safe place to hide!" One of the brothers suggested, while the others nodded in agreement.

Jing Shouren said in a deep voice, "Do you think it's safe to hide here? Soon, the spiritual energy here will be even thinner. All the plants will die, and the hungry spirit beasts will go mad looking for food everywhere. Sooner or later, they will find you and tear you to shreds with drooling saliva and swallow you up one by one!"

Everyone couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts. Their hands and feet were cold as they looked at each other!

"Let's not talk too much nonsense. Those who want to live will leave with me. This way, there is still a chance of survival. Sooner or later, there will only be a path of death if they stay here!" Jing Shouren said coldly. He took out all the spirit crystals from his body in pain. Each of them handed out two. He instructed, "Give one to the mount and the other to absorb the recovered spirit energy by ourselves. From now on, we will rush to Heavenly Arch City without stopping. We must arrive within two days!"

The brothers glanced at each other and fed a spirit crystal to the mount. They pinched the remaining one and absorbed and refined it!

The twenty-one Heavenly Wind Condor had eaten all of the spirit crystals. It couldn't help but feel refreshed. It spread its wings and entered the clouds, flying forward at full speed. Fortunately, he didn't have to worry about being attacked by spirit beasts while flying in the clouds.

After flying for a day and night, they were finally not far from Heavenly Arch City. Everyone could not help but be excited and gather their energy to activate their mounts. However, after flying continuously with high intensity, the flying mounts were already extremely tired. As the Heavenly Wind Eagles descended, the Heavenly Wind Eagles also descended into the clouds and flew down to the mountains below.

Just as Jing Shouren was about to land on a mountain peak, dozens of xiuzhe flew over from afar at lightning speed.

When Jing Shouren saw the other party leading the group of Golden Core warriors, his expression instantly changed. He said in a deep voice, "What do you want to do? I was originally a Black Iron General of the Star Army!"

"Master Sword, this fellow is a Black Iron General. Do you want to rob him?" Yin Buyou smiled at Fan Jian, who was hanging beside her.

Before Fan Jian could say anything, the fat bull hammer beside him rolled its mung bean eyes and said, "Battle … Battle general, take his damn hammer. If you want to steal the spirit crystals, you also need to steal them. This is what Incense Chief Li told you!"

Yin Buyou's face twitched. Back then, he had wanted to rob Incense Chief Li , but he didn't expect to be robbed. In the end, he became a subordinate's fighter in a daze.