Since the Three Teachings Grand Tournament at Kunlun Mountain concluded, ninety years had passed in the blink of an eye.
The entire Primordial World was shrouded in an unprecedentedly tense atmosphere. The storm was about to break; the Centennial Period promised by the Otherworldly Demon Gate hung over every living being like a sword of Damocles, constantly reminding them that the end was near.
Yet alongside that fear was an impassioned fighting spirit, suppressed to its very limit.
With Niu Ben—the Senior Disciple Brother of the Three Teachings, lord of the Underworld, and foremost among the All Heavens Saints—holding the fort, and with the Three Pure Ones united in purpose, the entire Mystic Gate displayed an unprecedented degree of cohesion.
The Three Teachings Disciples no longer clung to sectarian divisions. Golden Immortals of the Chan Teachings would visit Golden Ao Island to discuss Formation transformations with their fellow disciples of the Interception Sect, while the myriad immortals of the Interception Sect would travel to Kunlun Mountain to listen to the Great Dao True Words occasionally expounded by the Primordial Heavenly Lord.
Penglai Immortal Island, the overseas sacred land Niu Ben had offered up to bring about the unification of the Three Teachings, had become the core of the entire Mystic Gate. The island's spiritual energy was so dense it had practically solidified. Countless third- and fourth-generation disciples of the Three Teachings cultivated there in secluded training day and night without rest, all so that when the Centennial Period arrived, they would have a little more power to protect themselves and a little more strength to slay the evil fiends from the otherworld.
Within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, demonic qi surged into the skies. Xi He, Niu Ben's Dao companion, personally held the fort, gathering the remnants of the Demon