Central Lands

Si carefully carried Shangqing Spiritual Treasure Master on his back, speeding toward the downstream end of the Blackwater Mother River.

Yet his heart grew ever more secure and proud: Our Three Pure Ones Sect has three Sect Masters capable of looking down upon the Mother River. From now on, we will sit firmly upon the throne as the Mother River's foremost overlord. Who would dare not show the disciples of the Three Pure Ones Sect some respect?

When Soul-Qingyun returned to the Three Pure Ones Temple of the Return Ruins as Shangqing Spiritual Treasure Tongtian Sect Master, disciples such as Sifeng and Deng Jing were shocked to the core and hurried forward to pay their respects to the Shangqing Dao Ancestor.

They secretly thought, Jade Pure, Great Pure, Shangqing... so all three Sect Masters of our sect can descend upon the Time Ruin Mother River!

Only Li Xuanji had roughly guessed the truth.

Half a day later, Ba Snake Mountain in the Eastern Wasteland.

Within the temple atop the mountain, incense smoke filled the air in extraordinary abundance. The offering tables had been extravagantly arranged into six rows, laden with every kind of mountain delicacy, flowers, and fruit.

Before the Great Ruin half a year ago, such flourishing incense offerings would have been unimaginable for the sacrificial temple of Ba Snake Mountain.

Yet after more than half a year of the Great Ruin, Ba Snake Mountain had taken on an entirely new appearance. Its incense offerings were "booming," several prominent flea clans had become the main force behind the offerings, and they had driven the eighty or ninety thousand mountain folk who had migrated here to conduct sacrifices without pause every day.

Spider Two, with his eight legs, served as a Daoist attendant while also moonlighting as the temple