Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

Chapter 166 Defeated to the point of collapse
The new round of war is brutal, and the strange clan has sent a quasi-immortal emperor to take charge of the overall situation.

With a single strike, the border was shattered, and the bizarre army surged into the ancient primordial realm.

After the resurrection of the Emperor, the Immortal Emperor, the Longevity Emperor, Fuxi and Nuwa, the Moral Emperor and others, they suffered their first major blow.

Emperor Zun and others launched all their backup plans, but were ultimately suppressed by the strange Quasi-Immortal Emperor with a single hand.

The difference in skill level cannot be overcome by sudden bursts of talent or external means.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Bai hurriedly pulled the Footprint Emperor out of the Cemetery of Gods and Demons.

He had the incomplete body fight the strange Quasi-Immortal Emperor, thus stabilizing the situation.

The arrival of the mysterious Quasi-Immortal Emperor has once again turned the situation in the heavens against the Heavenly Court, and the surrender faction has resurfaced.

However, it was still useless; this time, it was the Immortal Emperor who suppressed it.

In the words of the Immortal Emperor: "Everyone is fighting hard to defend their homeland, and you shout to surrender. You really deserve to die."

Jiang Bai smiled upon seeing this and helped the Undying Emperor revive the imperial lineage from back then.

This lineage had a grudge against the Heavenly Court lineage of the Emperor, but they endured it and chose to fight against the strange race together.

In their words, "Kill the monster, and then we'll settle accounts together."

With subordinates, the immortal emperor could clean up the internal affairs more easily and efficiently.

This led to a group of people criticizing the Immortal Emperor for being only a bully within his own ranks, but it had no effect on him whatsoever.

The changes in the situation across the heavens eventually spurred the Emperor and the others, and soon everyone began a new round of seclusion.

This time, the speed at which the Emperor, the Undying Emperor, Fuxi, Nuwa, and others improved was even faster.

The path of creation, which had been difficult to advance for many years, began to break through rapidly, filling the entire ancient primordial world with all kinds of cultivation methods.

A scene of diverse schools of thought contending and flourishing appeared in the primitive ancient world.

The various races in the primordial ancient world began to selectively choose their cultivation paths, exploring those more suitable for themselves.

This left the returning Footprint Emperor dumbfounded, and he couldn't help but find Jiang Bai: "Could you resurrect another batch of people from the era of Shrouding the Heavens?"

Jiang Bai rolled his eyes. If he were to be resurrected again, he would have to resurrect those who were defeated by the Great Emperor, the Ancient Emperor, and the Heavenly Venerable, who are commonly known as the silver medalists.

Those people... seem like they could do it too.

Jiang Bai suddenly realized that although those people were silver medalists, it didn't mean they weren't strong enough.

At the very least, people from that era would be considered outstanding figures in today's environment.

Jiang Bai decisively activated the revival mode, and then watched as one group of silver medalists after another stirred up wave after wave in the Primitive Ancient World.

After all, these resurrected silver medalists, seeing their former rivals ascend to immortality and become incredibly powerful, had only one thought: "Damn, these lucky guys have become arrogant too. I'll overthrow them!"

Some of them chose to join the Weird Clan, only to be killed by those who had defeated them years before.

"Damn it, you spineless piece of trash, you make me look bad when I defeated you back then, you deserve to die."

So much so that when the Emperor approached Jiang Bai, he said, "Stop resurrecting people randomly. We have enough people already."

"You're just bringing trouble upon us by resurrecting a bunch of trash."

Thirty thousand years after saying those words, the Emperor broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor position in the Primordial Ancient Realm.

Then, the Emperor Venerable directly stormed into the alien realm, to the secluded cultivation place of the mysterious Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and initiated an earth-shattering battle, ultimately emerging victorious and defeating him. This battle allowed the Emperor Venerable's reputation to begin to rival that of Ye Fan.

"That's not enough, and it underestimates the Strange Clan too much," Jiang Bai and the Footprint Emperor commented together.

After all, even you, Emperor Venerable, couldn't kill the strange Quasi-Immortal Emperor on the other side.

The defeated, mysterious Quasi-Immortal Emperor immediately began to call for reinforcements.

Before the God Emperor's intelligence could be delivered, five extremely powerful and bizarre Quasi-Immortal Emperors descended upon the heavens.
Two people stopped the Footprint Emperor, while the remaining four people hung him up and whipped him, performing a public performance of skinning and tendon-pulling, imprisoning his primordial spirit in a dark cage, and leaving his physical body and head hanging on the border city wall of a foreign land.

This blow was truly enormous for all the heavens, causing countless people to gasp and bringing the heavens' morale to a freezing point.

Countless people lamented in despair, "Can we really win?"
After defeating the God Emperor, Quasi-Immortal Emperors appeared. After defeating one Quasi-Immortal Emperor, five more appeared. Will ten more appear after defeating these five Quasi-Immortal Emperors?

Will more come after we defeat ten Quasi-Immortal Emperors?
After defeating more Quasi-Immortal Emperors, will enemies with even higher realms than Quasi-Immortal Emperors appear?
Is it really useful to keep fighting like this?

Since surrendering will corrupt us and our souls will be imprisoned in darkness, let's fall into depravity and start indulging in pleasure.

Everyone should eat, drink, and play as they please. If you want to cultivate yourself, then cultivate yourself; if you don't want to cultivate yourself, then just wait to die. Don't bother trying to improve yourself.

In the end, everything points to death and defeat.

This idea spread rapidly as soon as it emerged, and countless people chose to follow it and give up.

Those who follow this ideology believe that if they are lucky enough not to encounter a strange race performing a ritual, their life of eating, drinking, and having fun is quite good.

As for future generations? As long as I don't have any children, then I don't need to worry about that, right?
As for glory? If I don't believe I have it, then I don't have it, right?

Even the Immortal Emperor and the Eternal Venerable, who were known for their ruthless killing of traitors, were stunned by this "lying flat" mentality.

If you ask them to join the war, they will join the war without hesitation.

When you ask them to join the supernatural race, they refuse outright because they don't want to enter the dark prison and still want to enjoy life.

You ask them to diligently cultivate themselves, but they choose to do whatever they want; if they can cultivate, they will, and if they can't, they'll just give up.

They are obedient, but they lack vitality; they just go through the motions every day.

The key is that you have no way to deal with them and can only leave it to fate.

Once this trend of complacency spread completely, the struggles in the ancient world decreased considerably. After all, everyone became indifferent to everything, such as rare and precious materials, super cultivation techniques, and beautiful women.

The cost was a massive decline in the birth rate of prodigies throughout the ancient primordial world, resulting in slow, or even stagnant, development of the cultivation civilization.

Faced with this predicament, Duan De and others went to Jiang Bai.

Jiang Bai looked at everyone, yawned, and said speechlessly, "You all come to ask others for help and place your hopes on others, let alone your subordinates."

These words left the Immortal Emperor and the others stunned. They then gave a wry smile, decided not to linger, and chose to return to the Heavenly Court to continue their cultivation.

Yes, this group of people from the era of "Covering the Sky" were not discouraged; they were just annoyed by the fact that their subordinates were discouraged.

After all, for people from the era of "Covering the Sky," if the Emperor was defeated but they were still alive, they could simply retaliate.

No matter how strong the strange race is, we will eventually crush them.

Therefore, the Undying Emperor and others who returned chose to let their subordinates go, while they themselves seized the time to try to defeat the strange race as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)