As the Sacred Sect's decree spread across the Eastern Wastes, a million Demonic Path cultivators rose together, their demonic might surging to the heavens. The Righteous Path had no choice but to respond. The Sacred Sect alone was more than any one righteous sect in the Eastern Wastes could handle, even the Eastern Immortal Sect, the foremost among them.
Thus, as the Sacred Lord's orders reached the Demonic Sects, the Righteous Path, thousands of miles away, also learned the news.
The Righteous Alliance, formed during the first dozen years of the Great Calamity but long since reduced to a name, gathered once more.
Countless heroes of the Righteous Path were ready to answer the Eastern Immortal Sect's call and converge on the border between the righteous and demonic territories.
Of the righteous sects in the Eastern Wastes Region, three stood along that border: the Shujian Sect, the Lishu Sect, and the Seven Swords Pavilion.
Of those three, the Shujian Sect shared the longest border with Demonic Path territory. Rumor also had it that the Shujian Sect had sent people to destroy the Corpse Plague Sect, triggering the Sacred Sect's response.
For all these reasons, the Shujian Sect became the likely first battlefield of the coming Righteous-Demonic War.
When the news reached them, everyone in the Shujian Sect was dumbfounded.
Sect Master Ye Huanzhen, the seven elders, and the four pavilion masters all wanted to write to the Sacred Sect and the Eastern Immortal Sect to ask one question: "What is this supposed to mean?"
"What do you mean the Shujian Sect sent someone to wipe out the Corpse Plague Sect? I haven't seen Yin Yuling in nearly thirty years. What the hell does this have to do with me?"
Inside the Shujian Sect, a burly, bare-chested man tore into the