The West Sea Spirit Domain sprawled vast and boundless, stretching a million li from south to north and divided into five states.
As the West Sea Spirit Domain's sole overlord, the West Sea Sect had ruled this region for several thousand years.
Although the West Sea Sect was Mountain Sea Realm's foremost immortal sect, with over a million disciples under its banner, managing such a vast territory was no easy task.
The West Sea Sect's solution was to continuously dispatch disciples to stand guard in places such as Southern Continent, Northern Continent, and Eastern Continent.
Over the centuries, countless sect disciples had put down roots in the places they guarded, establishing families of every size.
Even new sects.
These families and sects loyal to the West Sea Sect formed the most important foundation of the West Sea Sect's rule over the West Sea Spirit Domain.
States, prefectures, counties, towns, and villages, descending level by level—cultivation families and sects of varying ranks formed an incomparably tight net, hunting Demonic Beasts, driving out Evil Spirits, apprehending bandits, and purging Evil Cultivators...
Compared to people in other regions, ordinary people living in the West Sea Spirit Domain enjoyed far happier lives.
Even in the remotest places, Heaven and Earth spiritual energy was quite abundant. With cultivation families and sects standing guard, Demonic Beasts, Evil Spirits, and bandits posed little threat. As long as one was willing to work hard, earning enough to keep warm and fed was no problem at all.
People lived quite comfortably.
Yet over the past two years, the situation in the West Sea Spirit Domain had been quietly changing.
The West Sea Spirit Domain's core region—the West Sea—remained as peaceful and tranquil as ever. Yet in the other four states, including remote areas of Central Continent, Evil Spirits had