The Ancient God Path's Heaven-Hiding Pavilion.
For hundreds of thousands of years, it had known only peace. Now, that peace was broken.
Meteor-like stones fell from the sky and scattered in every direction, swiftly triggering the many restrictions within Heaven-Hiding Pavilion. Corpse puppets crawled from the earth and lunged at the beings who dared enter the Ancient God Path's forbidden ground.
To the southeast, the ten Daoist heirs of the Nine Spirits Domain descended among weed-choked graves.
Jiang Ding glanced around.
The surrounding mountains and earth had split open, and the rivers and lakes had dried up. Bones blanketed the ground: spiders, ants, cranes, cattle, humans, and more. The remains of countless creatures were piled like mountains, covered in tooth marks and signs of tearing, as though they had endured a brutal struggle.
"This looks like it used to be a spirit beast garden..."
Jiang Ding spoke to himself.
The Ancient God Path was renowned for commanding hosts of beast soldiers. Its seat of inheritance naturally held teachings related to them, but it now appeared abandoned. Hundreds of thousands of years had changed too much.
"Roar!"
"Hiss, hiss..."
The earth split open. Zombies and vicious ghosts burst through the soil, formed battle ranks, and charged at them.
Most of these zombies and vicious ghosts had been refined from species common in the Myriad Races Alliance, such as black-horned ants, Weaving Cloth Sky Spiders, flying cranes, and sheep beasts. In life, they had served the Ancient God Path as slaves. After death, they had been processed yet again.
"Millions of refined corpses. More than ten thousand are Spirit Transformation-level beast corpses, twenty-one are Void Refining-level, and one is a late Void Refining-level Weaving Cloth Sky Spider zombie!"
"And the refined corpses have battle formations!"
The Tianji Daoist formed a hand seal,