Time flew like an arrow; the years never lingered!
Several decades of springs and autumns passed in the blink of an eye.
It had been exactly fifty years since the Cultivator Association cleansed the world with an iron hand.
The Cultivation World, once rife with undercurrents and conflicts erupting everywhere, had finally settled into dust beneath the Association's relentless pressure and purges, returning to a superficial, fragile peace.
Many factions unwilling to accept their fate had either been utterly erased, or forced to lurk deep within the shadows, no longer daring to stir up trouble lightly.
Over these fifty years, Cheng Buzheng's avatar, manifested through the divine ability of the "True Spirit Dharma Body," had remained like a silent mountain, stationed within Sea Suppressing City—the Sacred City of the Boundless Sea!
At the same time!
In the vaster, deeper True Dragon Sea, the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan, which had united the four seas, also displayed a ruling power befitting its position as overlord!
After the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan unified the True Dragon Sea and its status became unshakable...
Led by the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan, the reach of its subordinate clans expanded into the Inner Sea.
Yet they maintained a distant and restrained relationship with the human race!
Over the past several decades, there had not been a single border-crossing provocation or large-scale disturbance, as though they were gathering something?
Or waiting for something.
Yet as the alliance led by the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan extended its reach into the Inner Sea...
The conflicts within the Inner Sea also grew increasingly intense.
The far-reaching effects of the upheaval that had swept through the Demon Race fifty years ago were still fermenting to this day.
Countless races, driven from their homes by drastic changes, exhausted resources,