"Master, the latest news from Yuanzhou: the Longevity Blessed Land has come under attack."
On the Floating Cloud Platform in the Que Luo Immortal Abode, Nie Yingzhi came for his customary audience to report on recent affairs within the sect.
This time, however, he made a special addition concerning another sect.
Without wasting words, he took out a crystal-like gemstone and infused it with Dharma Power.
A moment later, a watery curtain of light projected onto the opposite wall, displaying lifelike images as though the actual scene lay before them.
"Is that Yuanzhou?"
Li Ling saw an immortal blessed land of verdant mountains and boundless forests. Suddenly, black clouds filled the sky, and tens of thousands of ghosts flew out from the shadows on the mountains' northern slopes as the sun sank in the west.
These were ghost wraiths controlled by the Netherworld Sect. They had grown so rampant that they dared attack the Immortal Sects, openly challenging them.
Sword light flashed through the images, constantly tearing the ghosts apart. Yet powerful demonic cultivators lurked among them, launching surprise attacks from time to time and causing considerable trouble for the Longevity Blessed Land disciples defending the array.
After a fierce battle, the mountain forests lay utterly destroyed, and the malicious thoughts left behind by the fallen evil demons and outer Dao practitioners were scattered everywhere.
The people of the Incense Accumulation Sect knew these things well. They were grudge essence formed from greed, wrath, obsession, and grievance-essentially the "remains" of ghostly spiritual entities.
Some turned into black smoke, others congealed into foul water, drastically altering the environment across the land.
Even through the images, without being there to experience it themselves, Li Ling and Nie Yingzhi could see that the battlefield's spiritual energy was becoming polluted.
Once the flames of