For the cultivators of the Shrouding the Heavens universe on this timeline, darkness had long since seeped into everyone's marrow. Since the great upheaval of the Mythological Era, more and more beings had accepted baptism and converted to darkness. Linked by that supreme power, they seemed to have become one.
Generation after generation inherited this tradition. They fanatically carried out dark blood sacrifices, fervently worshipped the supreme Dark Heavenly Court, and yearned from the bottom of their hearts to one day ascend with the entire Heavenly Court, infecting the place called the Immortal Domain with darkness.
Yet in recent years, the dark beings had suddenly realized that certain irreversible changes seemed to have taken place in the universe. The Dark Heavenly Court, once revered and worshipped by all, had collapsed. The Lord of the Heavenly Court, invincible throughout heaven and earth, had fallen. Even the emperors who had once ruled the cosmos had been brutally slaughtered.
Those remnants of the Nine Heavens had returned to kill them!
By the time the dark Great Saints and dark Quasi-Emperors of the major star domains learned the news, the Dark Heavenly Court had already fallen completely, and the beings of the Old Nine Heavens and Ten Lands had begun the first step in purifying this ancient universe.
Slaughter!
The Void Mirror, the Human Emperor Seal, the Solar Saint Pagoda, the Taiji Diagram-
In the eyes of the cultivators of the Nine Heavens lineage, these were all supremely divine, sacred, and exalted Imperial Dao Weapons. But to the dark beings, these weapons had become unimaginable horrors. Whenever they appeared, it meant that every dark being on a star would be utterly slaughtered!
In this universe of cultivators, the mortals and low-level cultivators on a single inhabited star numbered at least a hundred billion. Yet