The Netherworld Emperor's plans, Heavenly Court's military drills, and the campaign against a Forbidden Zone

...Elsewhere, Qin Tian walked across the land. His cultivation now nearly reached the heavens; advancing another step would require eighty to a hundred years of secluded cultivation.

But Qin Tian did not want to enter seclusion so soon. Every second before the Road to Immortality opened was precious beyond measure. Rather than cultivate bitterly in seclusion, he had thought of another way to improve rapidly.

The radiance of the years reflected in his pupils. Time and space stirred, hazy and dreamlike as a cloud of mist, while crystalline fragments of time danced through a future of endless variables.

Qin Tian grasped the present and drove the era's development, thereby indirectly mastering every variable of the future and making that future certain.

Having reached this point, his power stood supreme in this era, and his forces dominated the present age. He could now be called the heavenly Dao momentum itself.

His will could sway the will of all living beings; his existence could determine the future.

As Qin Tian's thoughts changed, the years would shift as well. If he wished to campaign against the Underworld, the flames of war would spread through the future. If he wished for peace, the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands would continue to flourish until, a century later, the Immortal Road opened wide!

At this moment, he was almost equivalent to a Great Emperor. With a single stirring of his thoughts, the momentum of heaven and earth followed his heart.

"The Dark Turmoil is imminent!"

"It's time to drill the troops, too!" Qin Tian said quietly.

Although combat strength at the level of alternative Dao attainment was formidable, it still fell short of what was needed to quell the Dark Turmoil.

He needed to climb another step within these remaining hundred years, at least attaining the