Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather Chapter 1775 - 1078: White Cloud True Monarch Falls in Battle!

Time passed day by day, and the White Cloud True Monarch still hadn’t returned.

The Yang family withdrew their strength, Hidden Sword Mountain and Cangyu Mountain both chose to seal themselves off from the outside world.

Three months later, the Demon Clan army launched an attack on True Yang Immortal City, but the battle was overblown and short-lived, lasting less than two hours before the Soul Control Hall’s army of ghost soldiers was annihilated by the Demon Clan army.

In fact, the Soul Control Hall hadn’t left many ghost soldiers in True Yang Immortal City; they had already abandoned the city.

The Soul Refining Hall was decisively defeated in the south of the Wanhua Mountain Range, and the Soul Control Hall naturally understood this wasn’t the time to battle against the Wanhua Demon Court, so they also began retracting their defenses.

Retreating directly over ten thousand miles, they nearly withdrew to the northernmost edge of the Wanhua Mountain Range.

At this moment, everyone understood that the Wanhua Demon Court had won the war, but they also knew the victory was temporary; the Unpredictable Ghost Sect hadn’t been crushed, and it can even be said the core of the Unpredictable Ghost Sect remained intact.

Merely tens of thousands of ghost soldiers meant little to the Unpredictable Ghost Sect.

Neither the Soul Control Hall nor the Soul Refining Hall were fundamentally impaired, despite suffering some losses.

Moreover, the Unpredictable Ghost Sect still possessed the Soul Hooking Hall and the Endless Corpse Sea.

The Unpredictable Ghost Sect could return at any time.

The Wanhua Demon Court hadn’t tried to eliminate the Unpredictable Ghost Sect entirely; they only forced them to retreat and didn’t drive them completely out of the Wanhua Mountain Range.

Actually, the wounded party was the Wanhua Demon Court. At least twenty Demon Kings in the Wanhua Mountain Range fell against the sinister tactics of the Unpredictable Ghost Sect — either expelled from the Wanhua Demon Court or transformed into Demon King Yin Soldiers.

Although these Demon Kings were not the main members of the Wanhua Demon Court, they were its backbone, and while previously not entirely belonging to the Wanhua Demon Court, they helped guard its vast territories.

Now, with the fall of these Demon Kings, it’s nearly impossible for the Wanhua Demon Court to dominate the entire Wanhua Mountain Range; they can only hope to secure the central regions.

The war seemed to be over, but it seemed more like a halftime break.

Yet, in any case, all of this temporarily had no relation to the Spirit Source Land.

A year later, Yang Zhenshan almost confirmed that the White Cloud True Monarch would not return.

If the White Cloud True Monarch could return, he should have come back by now.

This time is different; the last time he hid himself to discover the mastermind, the Yellow Springs Old Ghost.

Back then, the Yellow Springs Hall was causing trouble in secret, and the White Cloud True Monarch didn’t know the mastermind, so he had to hide and wait for the mastermind to reveal themselves.

This time, there weren’t as many intrigues, and the Sky Cloud Sword Sect lost openly on the battlefield.

The White Cloud True Monarch had no reason to hide; indeed, he should have returned quickly.

Unless he had abandoned the Sky Cloud Sword Sect and the White Cloud Immortal City, there was no reason for him not to return.

He hasn’t returned for only one reason: he cannot return.

In the Longevity Hall, Yang Zhenshan looked at the chessboard before him and sighed softly.

The White Cloud True Monarch perished in battle!

This was not the outcome he wanted.

He actually hoped the White Cloud True Monarch could return.

Thus, the Sky Cloud Sword Sect could continue, and the Spirit Source Land could remain concealed, quietly growing.

Without the White Cloud True Monarch’s return, the Sky Cloud Sword Sect disbanded.

If the Spirit Source Land emerges in the future, it will have to face everything directly.

No, not Spirit Source Land, but White Jade City.

"Kou Ta, go to White Cloud Immortal City and retrieve the Sect Seal!" Yang Zhenshan ordered.

White Cloud True Monarch has not returned, and the Sky Cloud Sword Sect cannot persist. The Sect Seal of the Sky Cloud Sword Sect thus loses its significance.

Initially, he wanted to establish a new sect in the Life Realm Immortal Palace, but now it seems unnecessary.

Simply inheriting the doctrines of the Sky Cloud Sword Sect and changing the name to White Jade City will suffice as a continuation.

Yang Zhenshan still feels some attachment to the Sky Cloud Sword Sect.

"What if they don’t give the Sect Seal?" Kou Ta asked.

"They will give it. Yun Ge and Yun Fan aren’t fools; they know holding onto the Sect Seal is pointless!" Yang Zhenshan replied.

"Okay, I’ll go right away!"

Kou Ta stood up and spoke.

"Wait, choose a few Immortal Cultivation Families to incorporate into the Spirit Source Land, like the Luo family and the Wen family. If you have others in mind, you can also ask if they’re willing to join the Spirit Source Land!" Yang Zhenshan added.

Relying solely on internal growth within the Spirit Source Land takes too long, and the new White Jade City needs to absorb external strength.

As long as they’re willing to join the Spirit Source Land and move their entire family there, Yang Zhenshan doesn’t mind accepting them.

Not only the Immortal Cultivation Families but also the Immortal Clan, Golden Core Cultivators, Demon Kings, and so on are welcome by Yang Zhenshan.

Next, he will seek suitable candidates to recruit more powerful entities for White Jade City.

Kou Ta left, and Yang Zhenshan continued to study the chessboard in front of him, a Divine General Chessboard newly refined by Yang Jizhen, a superior magical treasure capable of accommodating three hundred and sixty-one Golden Armor Divine Generals.

The battle at True Yang Immortal City unveiled the Spirit Source Land’s greatest weakness: the lack of enough cannon fodder.

For the Unpredictable Ghost Sect, ghost soldiers and blood puppets were mere expendables, losing thousands or tens of thousands did not affect their foundation.