Chapter 834

Black Mist Continent.

There was no night sky here, no stars. The heavenly vault was shrouded in black mist all year round, the moonlight blood-red, and even at noon, the sun was steeped in the colors of dusk and blood.

The vast land was barren, its vitality withered, carrying an air of decay.

Only all manner of unknown, savage alien grasses remained. Covered in barbs from head to toe, they spread across the ground like creeping vines, blanketing the mountains and plains in a dense, black expanse.

This was a savage wilderness, like a forbidden zone of civilization. Humanity had nearly gone extinct here; if not for the Human Race Female Tree, they would likely have been wiped out completely.

But ever since the Dao Ancestor descended several decades ago and passed down the Corpse Release Immortal method, everything had changed dramatically.

This method itself was a Heterodox Path. Coupled with the maturation of the Consumption Method cultivated over the past century, the two combined finally allowed the cultivation civilization of this land to rise again.

As the Human Race Competition came to an end, the Great Species of Black Mist Continent that were comparable to Nascent Soul cultivators went extinct. Human Cultivators finally slew demons and exterminated evils at the frontier, tearing down ruined temples. Relying on the Female Tree's reproduction, they gave birth to a population numbering in the hundreds of thousands and formally established institutions and civilization.

At This Moment, led by the Ten Directions Jungle, the faction where the ten Yin Spirit True Persons resided, nearly a million humans were holding a Heaven and Earth Grand Sacrifice today.

They sought to communicate with the ancestor who had spread the Dao, ascended to the immortal realm in the dark, and enjoyed a lifespan of tens of thousands