The blood-soaked warning Zhu Wuji had left in a top-secret jade slip months earlier had finally become a calamity sweeping across the Great Zhou Realm.
As earth veins throughout Great Zhou revived in chaotic succession, spiritual energy gushed forth like fountains, but it also utterly shredded the nation's fortune that had suppressed Qingzhou for thousands of years.
The Primordial Demon Race and the Wildland Demon Kings lurking deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, amid barren peaks and treacherous waters, tore through their seals and unleashed bloodthirsty roars that shook the heavens.
An age of chaos descended brazenly, with a savagery that allowed no one even a moment to breathe.
Within mere months, seven or eight county seats around Great Wall Prefecture fell one after another.
The Immortal Cultivation Clans that had once stood above all others, monopolizing spirit mines and spirit fields, looked laughably fragile before the sky-darkening demon tides that knew no fear of death.
Their vaunted City-Guarding Grand Formations, powered by countless spirit stones, could not withstand even twenty-four hours of joint bombardment by several mountain-sized Demon Kings. They melted through like ice and snow, then collapsed.
Great numbers of Qi Refining lineage cultivators never even had time to crush their Void-Escape Talismans before the demon beasts pouring into the cities like tsunamis engulfed them and tore them into bloody mist.
As for the millions of ordinary people without any cultivation, they became nothing more than bloody food crunching between the Demon Race's teeth.
To cultivate evil arts, some Great Demons even herded entire cities of mortals onto enormous White Bone Altars, boiling living people into Flesh-and-Blood Pills and extracting their souls to refine Ten-Thousand Souls Banners.
To protect themselves during this racial catastrophe, the Great Wall Prefectural City and the few surviving major cities activated their highest-tier