In the Eastern Wastelands, the borderland minor nation of Cai Kingdom was almost forcibly erased from the map in a single day.
After Daoist Taiyao, the incarnation of Nine-Headed Mara, battled the many experts of the Southern Dipper lineage, the country vanished like smoke and clouds. In its place stood an utterly unfamiliar "ancient immortal ruin."
This ancient immortal ruin was called Yutuo Treasure Hall, a secret ruin that the royal family of Cai Kingdom had guarded for generations.
Unlike other ancient immortal ruins, Yutuo Treasure Hall had been secretly sealed away. Daoist Taiyao's arrival seemed to be for the purpose of seizing something within.
Although the Southern Dipper lineage of the seven great righteous sects had been on guard, they had still gravely underestimated the danger posed by Nine-Headed Mara, this Outer Realm Devil. They had never expected Nine-Headed Mara to possess cultivation nearing the Earth Baleful Realm.
Liu Tianming, the "One Breath Daoist" of the Southern Dipper Sect, had arrived only half an hour late, yet the cultivators he had dispatched were already controlled by Nine-Headed Mara through the Demonic Tainting Art. This left Liu Tianming wary of breaking the vessel for fear of the rats within. Even this great Earth Baleful Realm cultivator could not destroy Nine-Headed Mara in one stroke; he merely gravely wounded the demonic beast and forced it to flee thousands of miles away.
Meanwhile, although Yutuo Treasure Hall had opened, personnel sent by the seven great righteous sects had taken it over. Before leaving, Liu Tianming had also used the Southern Dipper Six Stars Demon-Sealing Grand Formation to temporarily lock it down, then set off alone to pursue Nine-Headed Mara.
The various upheavals in the Eastern Wastelands of the Central Plains had already spread throughout the world. The righteous path's actions, coupled with