Ever since the Green-Robed Ancestor had transformed into a dragon in the Southern Sea and Demon Corpse Gu Chen had founded his cult in the Eastern Sea in the 439th year of Ming, the Divine Land had lost its former peace and stability. Winds and clouds surged, and dragons and serpents rose from the land.
That had been the Jiwei year, so those two events were also called the "Jiwei Demonic Upheaval."
Before then, the Righteous Path had flourished, and the Demon Path had kept to itself. Afterward, the Demon Path ran rampant, and the Righteous Path went to war.
Now, fifteen years later, the conflict between the righteous and demonic paths was still intensifying, with not the slightest sign of great troubles dwindling into small ones, or small ones fading into nothing.
In this clash between righteousness and evil, the two things people most delighted in discussing were undoubtedly the Divine Ability battles of the older great cultivators and the younger generation beginning to show their edge.
As for those older great cultivators, the reason the entire Righteous Path had committed itself to the great undertaking of purging demons during this Jiwei Demonic Upheaval was that the strongest combatants on both sides had reached far too high a level.
On the very day of the upheaval, Juqü Mountain's sect leader, a True Person, had fought Demon Corpse Gu Chen, likewise of the Fifth Realm, all the way from Juqü Mountain to the Eastern Sea. In the end, they had drawn in the demons at sea and the leaders of other Righteous Path sects as well, battering the Eastern Sea into towering waves and setting an exceptionally high benchmark for this conflict.
Later, everyone had learned why Juqü Mountain had gone to such lengths. Demon Corpse Gu Chen had slipped