Spring of Incense Accumulation Year 1656.
In the lower reaches of the Underworld, on a nameless vast wasteland in the Impure Land.
Dark clouds shrouded the sky, leaving heaven and earth dim. Only a sliver of blood moon hung overhead, casting a scarlet glow.
Beneath this terrifying, apocalyptic nightscape, countless zombies and ghost monsters wandered aimlessly across the boundless earth.
A Core Formation elder of the Demonic Path stood in midair, gazing into the distance by the faint bloodlight.
The Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, which had originally hovered in the air like an enormous ship's wheel, had vanished into distorted space at some unknown point. In its place stood four Netherworld Sect strongholds, like mirages.
They were Yellow Springs Valley of the Yellow Springs Sect in Zuzhou, Corpse Mountain of the Corpse Immortal Sect in Changzhou, Ten Thousand Spirits Mountain of the Ghost Soul Sect in Yuanzhou, and White Bone Mountain of the White Bone Sect in Liuzhou.
He strained his vision to look around these four illusory mirage realms. Array Platforms and towers rose in profusion, stirring waves of energy that surged like dragons and serpents. The originally formless yin baleful qi condensed into torrents of heaven-and-earth origin energy, slowly circling the heavenly wheel.
At some unknown point, blood clouds filling the sky had drifted across the blood sea and onto land, rolling toward this place.
They came from the direction of the Yellow Springs Sect's Yellow Springs Valley mirage realm.
Where Corpse Mountain stood, sickly green poison clouds filled the sky. Thick corpse baleful energy spread across the earth, causing dense flesh resembling a fungal mat to grow over thousands of miles, saturated with decay.
In the direction of the Ten Thousand Spirits Mountain illusion, ghostfire swayed throughout the sky.
Countless yin souls gathered there, conjuring a cloudlike