The Cultivation Alliance is a very large organization. Only a few people know how many member countries it is made up of. No one else knows.
The minimum requirement to become a member is to reach rank 6 and have a cultivation planet.
Generally speaking, all cultivation countries are managed by the Cultivation Alliance. However, the Cultivation Alliance, which has countless member countries, doesn't have the time or energy to manage them one by one.
Therefore, in general, all cultivation countries under rank 6 are managed by the rank 6 cultivation country on this planet.
The country of Rosefinch used 100,000 years to go from rank 1 to rank 6. It was one of the rank 6 cultivation countries that used the least amount of time.
After becoming a rank 6 cultivation country, the country of Rosefinch was given a planet as its symbol. This planet was then named Suzaku by the Cultivation Alliance.
On Suzaku, the voice of the country of Rosefinch is the will of the gods.
Suzaku has a total of 18 rank 5 cultivation countries. The moment they reach the standard of a rank 5 cultivation country, the rank 6 cultivation country will give ten of them to the foreign battleground.
In other words, there are only 180 foreign battlegrounds in Suzaku. Every time one of them collapses, there will be one less forever. Unless the country is willing to spend a large amount of resources to buy them from a rank 6 cultivation country, there is no other way.
As for how the foreign battleground was created and where the spatial rifts lead to, no one in the rank 5 cultivation country knows.
Rumor has it that the spell to create the foreign battleground is given to the cultivation country when it becomes a rank 6 cultivation country. The Cultivation Alliance has a strict requirement to not reveal it to a rank 6 cultivation country or else they will be removed from the country.
Every rank 5 cultivation country controls many rank 4 cultivation countries. Similarly, every rank 4 cultivation country controls many rank 3 cultivation countries.
As for rank 1 and rank 2 cultivation countries, the Cultivation Alliance clearly states that they are not allowed to interfere and are allowed to develop.
The country of Zhao is a rank 3 country in Suzaku. It is controlled by the rank 4 cultivation country of Azure Dragon, and the one controlling the country of Azure Dragon is actually the rank 5 cultivation country of the Giant Demon Clan.
Every time there was a war in the foreign lands, all of the Nascent Soul cultivators in the country of Zhao would be summoned. They couldn't delay or resist. Back then, the five ancestors of the Heng Yue Sect were like this. If they went, the Heng Yue Sect would be safe, but their lives were uncertain. If they didn't go, not only would the Heng Yue Sect be destroyed, but the five of them wouldn't be able to escape.
In fact, the same thing was happening in almost every tier-3 country.
Survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest. The weak could only obey the words of the strong and could not refuse them.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this almost cruel law that cultivators were often more philistine than mortals.
Or perhaps in the eyes of the high and mighty Cultivation Alliance, this world was a giant furnace. Whether it was mortals or cultivators, they were all being mercilessly refined.
During the Shangji Mythological Period, cultivators paid particular attention to the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Heart. What they pursued was the Dao!
Cultivators gave people the feeling that they were elegant, out of this world, celestial, and heavenly.
However, with the destruction of the ancient times and the rise of the Cultivation Alliance, the word "dao" was completely shattered.
Facts had proven that cultivators without desires were destined to perish. This was a wrong path. Only the path of cultivation, which was filled with the law of the jungle and survival of the fittest, was truly the only choice for survival.
Although no one knew what the final result would be, at the very least, under the leadership of the Cultivation Alliance, the power and influence of the cultivators far surpassed that of the Ancient Era. This was enough.
At this moment, in a foreign battleground in the rank 5 cultivation country of the Giant Demon Clan, a strange change was taking place. All of the cultivators who obtained divine sense in the last three years were in fear.
The entire foreign battleground was like a meteor shower as countless divine senses charged in a certain direction.
Soon after, the Foreign Battleground that was already on the verge of collapsing couldn't withstand the fluctuations of the Divine Sense and started to collapse. A huge crack suddenly appeared on a large piece of the Foreign Battleground, as if it had been swallowed by an invisible mouth. It disappeared without a sound.
At the same time, a huge consciousness carefully probed out from the huge hole. Then, it leaped out unscrupulously and started to devour everything in a frenzy. A large number of mysterious creatures appeared along with it. They were the smoke-like creatures that Wang Linxiang had devoured previously.
The same scene began to appear in several places in the foreign battleground. A total of three enormous Divine Senses drilled out from the huge spatial cracks that were formed due to the collapse of the space.
Countless mysterious creatures followed closely behind. They pounced on anyone and anything they saw. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them locusts.
All of the cultivators in the foreign battleground used all of their strength to escape like crazy toward the transfer array. They were afraid that if they were one step too slow, they would be devoured.
Rays of sword energy desperately flew through the air.
The moment the three powerful divine senses appeared, Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He noticed that these three divine senses were very familiar to him. They were his three neighbors from the spatial rift.
At this moment, the divine senses he had spread out over the last three years returned one by one. Every time a portion returned, his divine sense would grow a bit stronger. Gradually, Wang Lin's divine sense reached the level of a B-spoon.
Wang Lin wasn't in a rush. He sat down in the lotus position and began to adapt to this strange body. At this moment, a few mysterious creatures floated over like ghosts. When they saw Wang Lin, they hesitated for a bit and didn't move forward. In the end, it was as if they couldn't stand the beauty anymore, so they all rushed toward him.
When they were a few dozen meters away from Wang Lin, Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes. There was a flash of coldness in his eyes as he coldly said, "You're courting death!"
A powerful divine sense suddenly spread out from Wang Lin's body. Those mysterious creatures acted as if they had met their natural predator. They let out terrified screams and frantically retreated.
However, before they could retreat far, Wang Lin's divine sense caught up to them. Just as he was about to continue devouring them, another powerful divine sense appeared, trying to stop him.
Wang Lin let out a cold snort. Not only did he not retreat, but he also caught up even faster and devoured all the offending creatures. The divine sense let out a sigh and didn't say anything.
At this moment, most of Wang Lin's divine sense had returned to his body. Even though there were a few that weren't in the foreign battleground and couldn't be summoned, the strength of his divine sense was almost the same as before.
"Everyone, you've crossed the boundary!" His divine sense spread out and a fluctuation spread out.
The fluctuation of this divine sense immediately spread out, and in the blink of an eye, it covered the entire foreign battleground.
The three divine senses that came out of the spatial crack were devouring the creatures when they suddenly stopped.
Then, they each sent a message to Wang Lin.
"You're very strong. I didn't expect you to come out from there."
"The space here has already collapsed. As fragrant souls, our mission is to devour this place and prevent its collapse from spreading. You're also one of the soul devourers, why are you interfering?"
"Newborn Fragrant Soul, my wandering souls have offended you. Even if they are punished, devouring the collapsed space has been our only mission since the day we were born. Even if we don't devour it, it won't be long before other soul devourers come to devour it."
After the three divine senses said this, they didn't continue to devour. Instead, they quietly waited for Wang Lin's reply. In their hearts, Wang Lin was already an existence on the same level as them.
This was the first time Wang Lin had heard about soul devourers. He pondered for a while and sorted out Mai Liang's memories. He knew that the transfer array was about to open. If the foreign battleground completely collapsed now, then it was unknown whether the transfer array could be opened or not.
"I don't want to stop it, I just want to slow down the collapse of the foreign battleground."
"Sure."
"As you wish."
"I also agree, but we can't stop the wandering souls from hunting."
After reaching an agreement, Wang Lin's body moved and he flew in the direction of the transfer array in Mai Liang's memories. Along the way, as long as the wandering souls sensed Wang Lin, they would immediately scatter in fear, not daring to stop him.
Along the way, Wang Lin wasn't used to this new body. Although Mai Liang's talent was pretty good, several times better than Wang Lin's, this body was, after all, possessed, so it would take a long time to completely take over.
Right now, he didn't have any spiritual energy in his body; he was completely relying on his divine sense. The most important thing right now was to find a place to go into closed door cultivation. While refining his body, he also needed to increase his cultivation level so that he could kill his way back to Zhao.
While flying, Wang Lin suddenly stopped. He looked northwest and pondered a bit before flying over. Not long after, he saw three rays of light flying over. Behind them were more than 10 wandering souls, and they were getting closer and closer to each other.
Zhou Zihong was a disciple of the rank 3 cultivation country of Hou Fen. Her hair was a mess and she was sweating profusely. The spiritual energy in her body had almost run out. Her face was filled with grief and indignation as she looked at her two senior apprentice brothers. They were also filled with fear as they desperately tried to escape.
"I'm afraid only the three of us are still alive from the War God Temple …" Zhou Zihong smiled miserably. Three days ago, there were still ten people from the War God Temple, but who would have thought that the foreign battleground would suddenly collapse, and a large number of strange creatures would appear. Any cultivator who was pounced on by them would immediately be scared out of their wits, and even their bodies would immediately wither. In the end, they would lose the essence of their flesh and blood and become dried corpses.
Those strange creatures seemed to like hiding in the dried corpses. Whenever they saw the corpses, they would immediately feel their hearts skip a beat.
Aside from Mai Liang, who left by himself four days ago, the remaining 10 people from the War God Shrine were: