"It's..."
Within the world.
Mount Jiuhua.
Cen Hongyue, who had already established a place of cultivation and was preparing to found a sect, suddenly felt a pang of dread.
She raised her head and saw the sun rising as usual. The world seemed unchanged, yet for some reason, she could not shake the feeling that a great disaster was about to descend upon her at any moment.
"Could it be... that the Heavenly Demon is really descending again... The Taishi Mountain battlefield, Taishi Mountain?"
Cen Hongyue's eyes suddenly widened as she stared at the divine statue of the Taiyi Dao Ancestor she worshipped. "I remember now... The ancient records mentioned it. Back when Taishi Mountain was transformed into a demonic domain, it was only because the Taiyi Patriarch intervened and severely wounded a supreme-level monster that the Orthodox Path managed to preserve a shred of vitality! The entire world was saved..."
Zhengyi Dao.
Gu Wuwang was gathering the various elders to discuss a strange matter.
"Have any of you heard of this Taiyi Dao Ancestor?"
"Hasn't it always been that only the orthodox sects of the Mystic Gate could produce Dao Ancestors? And among those who received widespread worship, there were only the three Dao Ancestors worshipped by the Three Sects of the Daoist Gate—Fangxian, Zhengyi Dao, and Taishi..."
An old Daoist asked in astonishment.
"Not so, not so. I once heard my master say that there was another Taiyi Dao Ancestor in this world, who abandoned himself to enter the unorthodox path and became its ancestor."
Another white-haired old man shook his head and said.
"That is true. I have heard of it as well, but something always felt amiss..."
Gu Wuwang's expression was somewhat strange. "If even Rogue Cultivators can produce a Dao Ancestor, then the name