Tian Yizi, the junior brother of the Azure City School's sect master, had emerged after a long absence and come to Western Kham to guard against the demonic cults of Dianwen. Madam Miaoyi had also urged Shuijingzi of the Emei School, who spent his years cultivating in seclusion on Min Mountain, to descend the mountain and hold Southern Shu.
From Zhou Qingyun's words, it was not difficult to tell that the demonic situation had left the great fourth-realm cultivators, who ordinarily seldom showed themselves, unable to cultivate in peace.
Moreover, from his exchange with Jiang Xueshi just now, he had learned that the East was in much the same situation.
After the Green-Robed Ancestor stationed the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal Lady, the demon dragon, and the Southern Sea Twin Fiends in Three Xiang and Yuyang, the Eastern Daoist Sect had promptly invited out the fourth-realm masters of their respective sects, who almost never left their mountains, to confront the demonic sects within Three Xiang and Yuyang.
The Mount Heng Sword Sect had no fifth-realm cultivator in its current generation. Its sect master, at the peak of the fourth realm, had left Mount Heng alone with his sword and built a hut on Yangming Mountain in Lingling, barely two hundred li from Mount Jiuyi. The two mountains could practically gaze at each other.
Dong Shouren, Vice Sect Master of Three Pure Ones Mountain, had led a hundred disciples out of the mountain, leaving Yu Zhang to take up a defensive position on Feixia Mountain in Yuyang, resisting the demon fiends and relieving the siege of Luofu Mountain.
Luofu Mountain had once been where Immortal Elder Ge Hong refined pills and wrote his books. Its Chongxu Abbey likewise housed a Precious Hall of the Three Pure Ones and a Hall of Immortal Ge.