Myriad Demon Ridge

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Myriad Demon Ridge (万魔岭)
Occupation/Role	One of the Two Major Factions of the Nine Provinces; opposing camp to the Vast Sky Alliance
First Appearance	146

Overview

Myriad Demon Ridge is a major cultivator faction whose sects maintain stations and encampments across the Spirit Stream Battlefield. Its long conflict with the Vast Sky Alliance shapes many large-scale battles, territorial struggles, and assassination attempts against Lu Ye. 146 196 331

Its central hub in Soldier Province is Myriad Demon City, and it maintains bodies such as the Province Guard. 932

Organization and Resources

• Sect stations and camps — Myriad Demon Ridge sects operate stations protected by Protective Grand Arrays; the loss of an Array Jade Token or a breach in the array can lead directly to a station’s fall. 296 300
• Garrison Envoys and Deputy Envoys — Local station leadership includes Garrison Envoys and Deputy Envoys, who coordinate defenses and communicate with other sects. 300
• Province Guard — A force based around Myriad Demon City which recruits talented cultivators. 932
• Spirit Stream Rankings cultivators — The faction fields ranked experts, including Wu Beihan, formerly ranked 33rd, and Ghost Shadow, ranked 9th. 374 375
• Divine Sea Realm leadership — During major escalations, Divine Sea Realm cultivators issue orders and negotiate on the faction’s behalf. 337

History

Spirit Stream Battlefield conflict

Myriad Demon Ridge intensified its conflict with the Vast Sky Alliance during the Spirit Stream Battlefield struggle. It deployed groups to hunt Lu Ye and sought to eliminate prominent Vast Sky Alliance leaders such as Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan, aiming to secure a lasting advantage in future confrontations between the factions. 146 196

The faction’s early campaign against Lu Ye included attempts to erase the Crimson Blood Sect from the rolls. Inner Circle and Core Region cultivators descended into the Outer Circle to pursue him, culminating in the Golden Light Peak confrontation and an Arena Battle arranged under a Heaven’s Mystery Contract. 300

The station collapses

Myriad Demon Ridge’s defensive position was severely damaged when Lu Ye infiltrated Wind Flower Pavilion’s station, seized its Array Jade Token, and enabled the station’s capture. Less than a day later, Sun-Illuminating Mountain also fell after he forced an opening in its Protective Grand Array and led Body Cultivators into the camp. 296 300

The reports caused widespread alarm because sect stations depended on their Protective Grand Arrays for security. Lu Ye’s ability to infiltrate or breach these arrays made Myriad Demon Ridge factions fear that their own camps could be attacked at any time. 300

In response to the growing threat, Myriad Demon Ridge ordered some camps—including Golden Cloud Tower—to be abandoned in order to appease Lu Ye. Its cultivators resisted the order, unwilling to surrender a camp built over generations. 338

Allied Army campaign

After Lu Ye formed a Vast Sky Alliance Allied Army, Myriad Demon Ridge stations began falling in rapid succession. The army expanded to three thousand cultivators in ten days, while the captured factions were kept contained so they could not pursue the advancing force. 331

The faction’s attempts to halt the campaign included sending five Heaven Nine-level Ghost Cultivators to assassinate Lu Ye. The assassins were instead trapped by an Illusion Array and killed by Lu Ye’s allies; afterward, two ranked sects were removed from the Spirit Stream Rankings. 332

A major battle led by Lu Ye and Jujia inflicted over one thousand Myriad Demon Ridge casualties, compared with fewer than three hundred losses for the Vast Sky Alliance. The defeat prompted anxiety among Myriad Demon Ridge’s Divine Sea Realm cultivators, who were willing to make concessions to avert a full-scale war. 337

Myriad Poison Forest operations

Myriad Demon Ridge surrounded Myriad Poison Forest to trap Jujia and Yiyi, then used them as bait when Lu Ye approached. Its cultivators sealed the sky, pressed inward on Jujia’s living space, and prepared layered defenses outside the forest for Lu Ye’s arrival. 371

Lu Ye answered by unleashing the Fire Phoenix, which killed or wounded more than two hundred Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators in roughly a dozen breaths, including several ranked cultivators and Wu Beihan. 374 375

Believing Lu Ye would succumb to poison and the backlash from the Fire Phoenix, Myriad Demon Ridge completely encircled the forest. Lu Ye instead established a protected area within it and later escaped the faction’s hunt; a subsequent attempt to trap him near the forest likewise failed. 376 378 417

Continued pursuit

Myriad Demon Ridge’s hostility toward Lu Ye deepened after more than two thousand of its cultivators died in a sealed mine tunnel. Many were poisoned, while survivors weakened by the poison were killed; Lu Ye was believed to have escaped through a Teleportation Array after collecting the Storage Bags of the dead. 638

The scale of the losses changed the conflict from factional rivalry and bounty-seeking into personal hatred for many Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators whose fellow sect members, friends, or family had died. 638

Relations

• Vast Sky Alliance — Rival major faction; the two sides fought repeated battles over stations, camps, and the Spirit Stream Battlefield. 146 197 337
• Lu Ye / Lu Yiye — Primary adversary during the Spirit Stream and Cloud River periods. Myriad Demon Ridge repeatedly hunted, encircled, and attempted to assassinate him after his campaigns destroyed numerous faction stations. 300 332 638
• Lin Yue — A Myriad Demon Ridge Pass Master who cooperated with Lu Ye during the Insect Race crisis, while remaining cautious because their factions were still fundamentally opposed. 1093
• Insect Race — Common enemy during the Earth Rift crisis; Myriad Demon Ridge and the Vast Sky Alliance jointly defended against emerging Insect Race forces. 1093

Cooperation against the Insect Race

During the Earth Rift crisis, Myriad Demon Ridge temporarily cooperated with the Vast Sky Alliance against the Insect Race. Lu Ye supplied it with one hundred Shared Breath, Connected Branches Formation Plates and established a Teleportation Spirit Array connecting Dark Moon Forest Pass with the Earth Rift. 1093

Lin Yue later brought more than two hundred Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators to reinforce the Earth Rift defensive line. Despite this cooperation, she continued to guard against the possibility that Lu Ye might act against Myriad Demon Ridge once the Bug Disaster ended. 1093

Trivia

• Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators coined or spread the title “Gate-Destroying Leaf” for Lu Ye after he repeatedly breached their Protective Grand Arrays. 331
• During Lu Ye’s reign over the Spirit Stream Battlefield, even camps belonging to First Rank Sects in the Core Region were pressured to the point that their cultivators feared going out. 753
• Lu Ye was able to enter Myriad Demon City by activating a temporary Myriad Demon Ridge Battlefield Mark. 932