Jiuli Mountain was not only the source of the eight-million-li-long Hidden Dragon River, but also the largest Nether Ghost Domain in Phoenix Qilin Continent, home to hundreds of millions of Soul Ghosts!
Tens of thousands of years ago, this had originally been an Immortal Realm Blessed Land, with myriad kingdoms standing side by side and countless immortals and mortals. Until one day, a sudden calamity erupted. Boundless ghost qi spread and raged, staining heaven and earth a different color, turning Jiuli Mountain completely into a ghost domain.
The sudden emergence of endless ghost qi, with neither known cause nor known source, transforming the human world into a ghost domain in the blink of an eye... was one manifestation of bizarre Evil Spirits. At its root, it was the lingering resentment of the "Will of Heaven" from a withering, decaying world affecting a normal world. Even the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm could not avoid it.
Back then, a similar Evil Spirits descended upon the Red Flame Domain of the Primordial Beginning Realm. Even Blue Province, where the River-Facing Sect's mountain gate stood, suffered Nether Ghost Qi erosion everywhere and nearly became a Ghost Kingdom upon the earth.
According to the River-Facing Sect's sealed historical records, that was during the sect's founding years, when the Red Flame Domain had yet to unite its mountains and rivers and many small kingdoms stood side by side. After the ghost qi Evil Spirits descended, no one knew how many mortals, cultivators, demon beasts, and sprites were corrupted by ghost qi and turned into savage ghost creatures. The living suffered untold misery, while demons and monsters ran rampant!
From the records alone, one could tell that this calamity brought about by the bizarre Evil Spirits was in no way inferior to the Heavenly Demon invasion a thousand