Although Mystic Heaven Way had unified the entire Origin Continent and grown stronger than ever before, destroying the Red Sand Sect was still no easy task. After all, the sect had Old Monster Sha, a Great Cultivator at the Spirit Communion Stage. Several campaigns to wipe it out had failed, leaving them locked in a tug-of-war to keep the Red Sand Sect from attacking the Origin Continent at will. For many long years to come, its threat would loom over them.
In the blink of an eye, another hundred years passed, and Mystic Heaven Way had gained complete control of the Origin Continent.
But trouble gradually began to surface. Some small and mid-sized lineages grew dissatisfied with Mystic Heaven Way's monopoly on power and its restrictive sect rules, secretly organizing resistance against it. Given its strength, Mystic Heaven Way naturally had nothing to fear from these small lineages. Without another word, it actually wiped out those small sects. Its iron-fisted brutality was little different from rule by the Demonic Path.
For a time, everyone on the Origin Continent feared for their own safety, and no one dared resist Mystic Heaven Way.
Over the following decades, cultivators from small sects and factions gradually began disappearing, or their entire sects were slaughtered. Mystic Heaven Way's reputation grew steadily worse, but what could anyone do? In the Cultivation World, where the weak were meat for the strong, strength was the only argument that mattered. No cultivator pursued the matter.
Then, several decades ago, the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect's Second Elder and Black Demon Young Master suddenly appeared after being missing for centuries. Moreover, the Black Demon Young Master appeared as the Red Sand Sect's Grand Supreme Elder. He had actually become a Great Cultivator at the Spirit Communion Stage. No one knew what