Cloud Water Sect's rise may have involved a measure of luck,
but it was, after all, a great sect with a legacy spanning several thousand years, and it possessed no small number of historical records.
From a thousand to ten thousand years ago,
the entire Yunzhou Cultivation World had, in fact, revered Huangtian Cult above all else.
Huangtian Cult imitated the power of the Abyssal Demons and created a localized Body Refining Method, seeking to attain the seemingly immortal and indestructible state of high-ranking Abyssal Demons. They walked the path of sanctifying the fleshly body.
However, a thousand years ago, someone from Huangtian Cult had been unwilling to die of old age and released the sealed Abyssal Demon General within the Wild Heaven Realm, triggering a calamity that swept across the entire Yunzhou Cultivation World!
That calamity
changed the landscape of the Yuzhou Cultivation World. Huangtian Cult became history from that day onward, Thick Earth Sect was destroyed, the Mystic Water Lineage was severely injured and absorbed into Cloud Water Sect, and Cloud Water Sect seized the chance to rise. After Dao Venerable Xuan Su achieved Dao, it became Yuzhou's new overlord in a single stroke.
Let that matter rest for now.
With Huangtian Cult's complete annihilation,
some of Huangtian Cult's secrets naturally spread as well.
For instance, the Wild Heaven Realm!
According to what Cloud Water Sect had learned, the Wild Heaven Realm was Huangtian Cult's origin. Ten thousand years ago, Huangtian Cult's Founder had discovered this secret realm world within a shattered small world, and it had thereafter become the foundation upon which Huangtian Cult stood.
As for the Mystic Water Lineage, one of the lineages passed down from the Ancient Five Elements Sect, it had recognized during the great war of that year that the Wild Heaven