After the parting of floating clouds, a thousand years have passed in the snap of a finger

Dragon Scale Island, East Ward.

The Heaven-Human Covenant Assembly was about to convene on Dragon Scale Island. The island's Demon Race and human inhabitants had long since fled, and all manner of buildings had been moved away with them.

Where the four market districts had once been packed tight with every kind of structure, the entire island now lay empty and desolate, with only a handful of large estates remaining.

The Heaven-Human Covenant Assembly, held once every three thousand years, was a momentous event for both the Nine Provinces and the Dragon Scale Association and Sky Shark Alliance.

The contests between the two sides would be clashes among top-tier Spirit Transformation powerhouses. Though the battlefield would be set upon the vast East Sea, it still posed an enormous threat to Dragon Scale Island.

Those who still dared remain on Dragon Scale Island were either Nine Provinces powerhouses or experts from the two great Demon Race organizations.

Some Demon Race experts were setting up formations around Dragon Scale Island, chiefly adjusting the formations' control over the surrounding area. The battle between humans and demons at the Heaven-Human Covenant Assembly would be of an exceptionally high level—and thus of tremendous value.

By using formations to control the surrounding void, the fighting could be watched through methods such as water mirrors. These battles could be recorded in real time, then transmitted to distant places through the formations.

For instance, vast alliances such as the Thousand Star Islands held a strong interest in this alliance assembly. Demon Race merchants from the Dragon Scale Association would arrange for taverns and pleasure houses to broadcast the battle between the two sides simultaneously through water mirrors.

Spirit Transformation cultivators were each heroes who commanded a region. Open battles were exceedingly rare, much less a showdown between the