The dawn breeze blew away the lingering dew; a hundred flowers sprang from their native soil.
The Nine Heavens were peaceful. At some unknown point, Flowers of the Other Shore had bloomed throughout the Ninth Heaven, their flawless white divine blossoms visible everywhere.
Two years had already passed since Su Mo withdrew from the world to live in seclusion.
Everyone seemed to have forgotten that Heaven-Severing sword strike from two years before, each busily struggling to make a living.
Yet a closer look revealed relief and gratitude in everyone's eyes for this hard-won peace.
The World Barrier of the Nine Heavens had shattered beneath that sword strike, opening a connection to the outside world.
Many people from the outside world entered the Ninth Realm, one after another.
Everyone knew how the Cloud, Thunder, and Rain Sects had once exhausted every scheme to open the World Barrier of the Nine Heavens and enter the Ninth Realm in force.
Everyone guessed that the Ninth Heaven held opportunities even the Cloud, Thunder, and Rain Sects sought. The path of cultivation had always involved constantly seeking opportunities to advance one's cultivation.
Those cultivators from the outside world naturally wanted to enter the Ninth Realm and investigate. Now that it stood open, many poured inside.
Though countless outside cultivators flooded into the Ninth Realm, none dared run wild within the Nine Heavens. They knew this realm was that Unorthodox Cultivator's territory.
What had happened outside the Demon Realm back then left them afraid to overstep in any way, even though the cultivation of those in the Ninth Heaven was generally much lower than theirs...
Back then, outside the Demon Realm, the three top powers, including the Blood-Cold Imperial Dynasty, had lost half their sect members in a single day because of Su Mo. Only when