Phoenix Lin Immortal Continent, Jade Spring Mountain.
Three and a half years had passed since Shen Mo slew the Heavenly Locust Mother. Jade Spring Immortal Maiden had completely purged the lingering power of the curse from her soul-body, and all manner of injuries caused by the curse had long since healed.
The formations and restrictions of the major cultivation forces on the mountain had suffered countless damages under the assault of hundreds of millions of demonic insects, but by now they had more or less been restored to their former state.
Yet in that great battle, countless sects, cultivation Lineages, cities, towns, and human kingdoms had been breached. Many cultivators had fallen, while tens of millions of living beings, including both mortal and immortal humans, had perished. Their vitality had been gravely damaged, and their former prosperity was gone; without a century or so, recovery was out of the question.
Jade Spring Immortal Maiden had already attained the Divine Immortal Dao Fruit. By all reason, she should now have gone to guard a gateway between Heaven and Earth.
These so-called gateways between Heaven and Earth were actually located at the border where the Profound Yellow Universe intersected with the corpse of the Olden Universe. There, the powers of the universe's will and the Daluo Golden Immortals were exceedingly weak.
Within the gateway lay the Profound Yellow Universe, while beyond it was the corpse of the Olden Universe. Since the Profound Yellow Universe itself had been born from that corpse, the two could also be considered overlapped. From the birth of the Profound Yellow Universe and the beginning of the Immortal Dao Era, the increasingly powerful will of the universe had sealed all traces of the old era away in another dimension.
Most regions within the universe were protected by the