As time passed, Great Jin retreated from the six provinces of West Jiang of its own volition. Meanwhile, the Eastdream and Westdream provinces submitted to the Cloudstride Sect. And thus, in a mere two months, the Cloudstride Sect unified the Jiang Continent. 3

This momentous news reverberated across the world, prompting heated discussions among countless martial artists. Who could have foreseen that the Cloudstride Sect, once in a precarious position, would rise to become a behemoth that ruled the central region of the world?0

However, amidst the discussions and whispers, the Heavenly Rankers were not taken aback by the Great Jin's relinquishment of territory. For them, this was merely the natural order of things. 0

The world believed that the ebb and flow of the thirteen continents, the rise and fall of dynasties, were determined by the countless ordinary soldiers who fought and bled on the battlefield. But the Heavenly Rankers, the true rulers of the world who stood at the zenith of martial power, knew better. Their lives and deaths, their triumphs...0