"We're in the Endless Cloud Sea. The Thorn Forest and Flesh Desert are closest to us."
"Those lands are known as the Wild Domain, and two mysterious supreme beings rule them."
"The patriarch of our Endless Cloud Sea is called the Patriarch of the Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects!"
"He passed down forty-eight thousand Great Daos. Each can lead to the Immortal Realm, and together they laid the foundation of the forty-eight thousand sects of the Endless Cloud Sea."
"But Dao Lineages rise and fall. Of our Forty-Eight Thousand Side Sects, only forty-nine still have Immortals."
"Another three thousand or so are Tribulation Realm sects. As for the rest, most are led by Longevity Realm cultivators."
"Our Devouring Spirit Sect is a Tribulation Realm sect, ranked one hundred and third among those three thousand!"
"The reason their strengths vary so widely is that, every so often, the entire High-Dimensional World comes under attack from lower-dimensional worlds."
"Some sects lose many of their leaders in these wars and decline as a result. It can take them a very long time to recover."
"The lower-dimensional worlds are the infinite void beyond the two realms of Heaven and Earth, the Central Three Domains, and the four Border Wildernesses."
"We're in the Endless Cloud Sea, one of the Central Three Domains. The Flesh Desert and Thorn Forest are two of the four Border Wildernesses."
"There are countless lower-dimensional worlds in the infinite void."
"And countless powerful beings live in those worlds."
"Among them are beings who have reached the very limit of the Immortal Realm, or even come infinitely close to the patriarchs."
"To advance further, they attack the entire High-Dimensional World and unleash boundless slaughter."
"We call these wars tribulation cycles. They are a test for every living being in the High-Dimensional World."
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