While Chen Changsheng was thinking about things.

He suddenly frowned, quickly sat up straight, and looked in a certain direction.

Ruyi looked at him and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Chen Changsheng opened his mouth, but then lay back down, saying, “Nothing.”

“Uncle Chen is strange.”

“He is a little.”

“Hmm.”

Ruyi continued practicing embroidery, secretly putting a piece of preserved fruit into her mouth.

Chen Changsheng liked such peaceful days.

Ruyi and Ping’an were slowly healing him, not just Ruyi and Ping’an, but also Old Huang, Doctor Wang, Cao Fa, Manager Zhuang, Li Lao’er, Tao Sheng…

This was probably why he was happy to stay here.

He ignored the extra matters.

……

“Dong!!”

On the misty Immortal Mountain, the sound of bells suddenly started.

Thousands of figures gathered towards the main peak.

In the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the forty-nine lamps all went out at that moment.

Zhong Zhengyuan stared at the extinguished lamps.

“The forty-nine lamps, all have gone out…”

Chen Daoqiu stood to the side with a horsetail whisk in hand, his face very serious.

“Something bad happened in the Desolate Sea borderlands!” said Chen Daoqiu.

“Trouble…”

Zhong Zhengyuan’s expression was grim, as he realized that this matter was not ordinary.

In past times, there had never been an event where all forty-nine lamps went out.

Probably, the Heaven and Earth would become chaotic.

…

In the Desolate Sea borderlands, the Great Wall suddenly shook.

“Rumble…”

The Desolate Sea also trembled, even looking like it was flowing backward, toward the sky.

Dozens of Heaven and Earth energies flew out from within the Great Wall, not knowing where they went.

Right after, a red light rushed out after them. Strangely, within that fierce red light, a bit of kind Buddha’s Light showed.

Heaven and Earth suddenly turned dark.

Thunderclouds had gathered above the sky at that time.

Following close, countless auras escaped from the Spirit Cage.

A nasty laugh suddenly sounded over the Desolate Sea.

“Bang!!”

Heavenly Thunder suddenly fell, as if to destroy those escaping auras.

In just a moment, it seemed like heavy thunderbolts crashed down.

All beings escaping from the Spirit Cage were chased by thunder punishment without exception.

“I’m finally out!!”

“Haha…”

The Great Wall standing over the Desolate Sea completely fell down.

Nearly half of the beings guarding below the Great Wall died under the Heavenly Dao’s thunder punishment, but most took the chance to flee from there.

Soon, hundreds of Celestial Immortals arrived at the place.

“Fellow Daoist Friends! Follow me to steady Heaven’s Momentum! Don’t let those ancient evil things harm the masses!”

“Array rise!”

Hundreds of cultivators set up the formation, raising it beneath the Great Wall.

“Mortal World cultivators! Quickly let us go!”

Several black auras began to rush against the formation, and above them, heavenly thunder rolled, about to fall.

The Spirit Cage had stood for thousands of years, not just being a simple Miniature World.

Only stealing a few Heavenly Dao energies couldn’t hold up this Heaven and Earth; naturally, there were reasons behind it.

One cultivator said in fear, “What are these things really, why are they so evil?”

“Can ancient Evil Spirits be this strong?”

But they were wrong; these weren’t only ancient Evil Spirits.

Just as they kept the formation steady.

Suddenly, a golden light flew out from behind the Great Wall.

A gourd pointed at those evil beings.

An Immortal Sword flew out from the gourd, endless killing energy came from the sword.

“What is that?”

“An Immortal Sword? What an evil Immortal Sword!”

The sword qi of the Taiqing Sword swept past the Evil Spirits in the formation, and in an instant, many screams sounded from the formation.

But this was far from enough, because there were too many Evil Spirits.

“Bang!!”

Suddenly, one corner of the formation shattered.

Someone yelled, “Quickly fix the formation!”

But the escaping Evil Spirits were too fast; fixing it again was nearly impossible.

While they thought this, suddenly a sword light slashed over from the Desolate Sea.

“Hum.”

This sword light made almost all of them shiver.

Under just one sword strike, all the thousands of escaping Evil Spirits were killed.

The immortals looked over.

“Whose sword is it…?”

After it, yet another sword qi came.

With another sword strike, everything became silent.

The heavenly thunder faded, and the evil spirits vanished!

A figure appeared, walking on clouds. He lifted his hand, beckoning, and the Taiqing Sword flew into his grasp.

He glanced at the gourd nearby. After a moment’s thought, he summoned it toward him.

Without uttering a word, he departed.

Hundreds of Immortals above the Desolate Sea stared dumbfounded at the direction he had gone.

Only after a long time did someone manage to snap out of his daze.

“Zhao Yuqing…”

They turned their gaze forward. The Desolate Sea now lay in ruins. The fallen Great Wall had crumbled into several islands, standing tall upon the desolate waters.

This chaos… had ended in just two sword strikes.

Many questions filled their minds:

Whose Immortal Sword was that inside the gourd?

Why had Demon Sovereign Zhao Yuqing come here?

And this Great Wall…

Just what had happened?

Where had those evil spirits come from?

“Pfft…”

On one of the islands in the Desolate Sea, a man collapsed, spitting out a mouthful of crimson blood.

He bore the mark of Heaven’s Punishment, suffering severe internal injury.

Struggling to his feet, he hastily slipped into a cave nearby.

“Oh, how dangerous,” Qing Tianyou gasped, exhaling sharply.

He had narrowly escaped.

“The spiritual energy here… it’s incredibly rich!”

That realization stunned him. It brought back words spoken to him by a cultivator many years ago.

‘So this is the vast world…’

He sighed, looking at his injuries. “What a shame, being so badly hurt. Must lie low now. Will see it for myself later.”

Recalling the Heavenly Punishment sent shivers down his spine. The cultivators guarding the exit were truly formidable; escaping them had been a very close call.

Qing Tianyou sat cross-legged and began healing his wounds.

Silence fell upon the cave once more.

Chaos had gripped the Cultivation World.

Every cultivator sensed that great turmoil was about to sweep across Heaven and Earth.

The Cultivation World, the Demon Realm, even the Mortal World – all would be affected.

Cultivators from everywhere gathered to discuss the events.

“What exactly are those evil things?”

When this question was asked, the cultivators present fell silent.

None of them understood the world beyond the Great Wall or knew why it had stood for so long. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

After a long pause, a voice murmured softly in the quiet hall.

“Perhaps the Daoist Friends from Tianji Mountain would know.”

For the most complete record of the true history of Heaven and Earth… it was likely only found at Tianji Mountain.