Prelude to the Great Battle

The eighth year since Azure Cloud Blessed Land descended upon Five Dragons Mountain.

This year, two years remained before Shen Mo reverse-refined it back into a Blessed Land. Once the reverse refinement was fully complete, he could stow it away and directly relocate it from Five Dragons Mountain;

This year, most of the southern mountainside had been seized by the fiends of Howling Corpse Cave. Other factions, whether fiends or cultivators, had either died, surrendered, or fled;

This year, three more fifth-tier great fiends had appeared within Howling Corpse Cave. One of them was Fairy Peiyu, under Shen Mo's control, who had devoured enough flesh and blood to advance into a fifth-tier Great Heavenly Demon;

This year, Shan Hao, the tiger demon king, had expanded the Myriad Spirits Divine Baleful Array to a scale of three hundred thousand. Vast numbers of fiends had begun encroaching upon the safe zones surrounding Azure Cloud Blessed Land...

After a series of attempts at persuasion, probing, clashes, and bloody battles, Howling Corpse Cave had assembled five hundred thousand troops and deployed three Myriad Spirits Divine Baleful Arrays. A three-hundred-thousand-strong grand array formed the central route, while two hundred-thousand-strong arrays formed the left and right routes, launching a full-scale campaign against Azure Cloud Blessed Land!

At the mountainside where Azure Cloud Blessed Land lay.

For a time, devilish clouds surged and demonic qi shot into the heavens!

Shen Mo and True Lord Daoxuan stood atop the clouds, gazing into the fiendish encampment of Howling Corpse Cave, both wearing grave expressions.

"This old man has traversed nearly the entire eastern slope of Five Dragons Mountain. Of all the True Lords of our race I encountered, upon hearing of this matter, they either fled Five Dragons Mountain with their disciples or resolved to hole up within their