The Strange Gate Temple itself was a Divine Path supreme treasure.
By all reason, it should have had no karmic entanglement with the Demon Path.
Yet the world revealed behind it now bore a striking resemblance to the Demon Domain in the north of the Nine Heavens.
But the aura flowing forth from the years made it abundantly clear to the other cultivators—
This Demon Domain was not that Demon Domain.
"How strange."
"Wasn't it said that the Devil Master had revived?"
"Could it be..."
Some cultivators turned their gazes toward the West Sea.
Then they looked again toward the Demon Domain, voicing the doubts in many hearts.
Naturally, they knew nothing of the chessboard above, yet they could still sense the shifts in the cultivation world's atmosphere and the turning of the greater tide over these recent years.
It was as though some unseen change existed in the dark.
Thus, they could also surmise that the world beyond the Strange Gate Temple's gate—
Was likely a world on par with the Eight Wastelands, the Heavenly Sun, and the Heaven of Universe.
Perhaps because they had seen too much already, the cultivators of the Nine Heavens were no longer as shocked as before.
Yet the matter of the Devil Master's revival still stirred countless hearts.
"Those demonic cultivators—aren't they people of the Demonic Path? Why haven't they sensed the Devil Master's Great Dao?"
That aura of the Devil Master's Great Dao carried sign after sign of extraordinary portent.
Heaven-gazing cultivators from other Earth Continents saw a strand of fate suddenly emerge amid the Great Dao fortune displayed in the heavens, one different from the Demonic Path fortune of the present age.
In their hearts, they gained another layer of speculation regarding that widely circulated rumor.
Compared to others, these cultivators