Eastern Wasteland!
Mountain Sea Calendar, Year 3667!
Though demonic beasts still caused trouble from time to time across various regions, the Eastern Wilderness Cultivation World had ultimately settled down.
The demon calamity that had lasted two hundred years seemed to have gradually faded into the distance, yet the sight of nine out of ten homes standing empty and devastation as far as the eye could see still reminded Eastern Wilderness cultivators that the Demon Race within the Million Mountains could charge out at any moment.
Of course, such matters were for the great figures to consider.
For low-level cultivators, this era was undoubtedly the best of times!
The great sects that had once stood high above all others had either been destroyed or perished. Even those that remained no longer possessed even half the control they had enjoyed at their peak.
More than half of the vast Thirty-Six Domains lay vacant, while battlefield ruins and the remains of fallen cultivators were everywhere, each containing opportunities to become immortals and attain the Dao.
Thus, while the major sects licked their wounds and recuperated, smaller factions began claiming mountains as kings and rising rapidly.
Even the once weakest independent cultivators seized this opportunity and clawed their way upward with all their might.
In the past, an independent cultivator reaching Foundation Establishment Stage would have been a fine tale.
But over two hundred years, Golden Core independent cultivators had appeared again and again.
There were even rumors that several formidable Golden Core independent cultivators had already touched the threshold of Nascent Soul Formation, lacking only that final kick through the gate.
And this year, the opportunity to take that final step had arrived!
Fireworks Ancient Domain, within a mist-shrouded swamp.
Treasure light flickered, mana surged in all directions, and figures filled the area.