Legend of the Great Sage

or the Hungry Ghost realm.
The Asura realm did fight on endlessly, but that was a special form of stability.
As for the Heaven realm and Hell realm, that was under the administration of buddhism, which did not require the patrolling of a divine general from the heavenly palace.

“Even if something happens down there, you can’t see it from up here!”

Chao Tianjiao peered down as hard as she could.
Those mountain ranges that towered into the clouds and extended for thousands of kilometres were only wrinkles in the earth now.
The broad and mighty rivers that ran for tens of thousand kilometres were only thin, curved lines.
If she had not become a Human Immortal and developed astonishingly-sharp eyesight, she basically would not be able to distinguish them at all.

The only sight worthy of mention were the changing clouds.
Because the flow of time was faster in the Human realm, the clouds changed at an extremely rapid pace too.
Whenever she came out patrolling, she would often be able to witness the growth and death of a storm.

When she saw that for the first time, she had basically been left shocked beyond words.
She realised countless things and her mental cultivation progressed even further.

But after seeing it for all those times, they were merely clouds now.

Life in the heavens was much more boring than she imagined.
The daemon star of misfortune, Yinghuo, had clearly emerged.
The crisis of the world was already imminent, yet there was nothing for her to do despite being a divine general of the heavenly palace, which was truly strange.

“If I had known earlier, I would have just presided over Black Cloud city instead! Even if all the demonfolk have retreated, I can still bully that kid Li Qingshan! Speaking of which, it’s been a very long time since I’ve shown him some ‘love’!” Chao Tianjiao chuckled.

Right as she was thinking about paying a visit to the Human realm the next time she had a break, she suddenly saw a beam of white light rise up from the ocean and rush into the sky.

Now that was not common.
She became serious and gazed over, only to see a wisp of black smoke billowing at the bottom of the white beam, as well as some flickering firelight.

“That… seems to be… Myriad city!?”

……

Fifteen hundred kilometres south of Myriad city was a volcanic island, but unlike the Xuanming dwelling, this was an active volcano.
It currently rolled with black smoke as lava surged at the crater.

A man with a simple and dignified appearance sat within the lava.
He was the former first senior brother of the Myriad sect, Li Liehuo.

After the battle of Black Cloud city, he entered secluded cultivation for good, hoping to undergo the sixth heavenly tribulation and make the step that separated immortals from mortals.

During the morning, he also received the Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance’s order to gather, but he did not answer the call and head to Myriad city.

He had benefitted quite a lot from the battle of Black Cloud city.
He had already emerged from secluded cultivation several months ago, becoming a Human Immortal.
He could no longer be regarded as a direct disciple of the Myriad sect now.
He was currently recovering his strength and consolidating his cultivation, so he naturally refused to answer the call.

However, the Myriad sect was his origins, so he could not help but be somewhat attached to it.

I wonder what’s happened to the Myriad sect.
The spirit reverend would never gather the disciples so spontaneously.
Don’t tell me demonfolk have assaulted Black Cloud city again?

Li Liehuo constantly thought about it and felt slightly uneasy.
At this moment, he suddenly sensed a pulse of spiritual qi.
It was not particularly intense, but it left him tense for some reason.

He immediately rushed out of the volcano, taking to the air.
He gazed northwards in the air, only to see a thin, white line in the spacious and distant horizon between the sea and sky.

……

At the same time, who knew how many cultivators in the Human realm gazed in the direction of the Myriad sect.

Le Tian was amongst them.
As a direct disciple of the Myriad sect, he had also received the Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance’s order to gather.

However, he did not gather in Myriad city, nor did he remain in his dwelling.
Instead, he arrived fifty kilometres away from the city and lay in hiding, waiting to see what would happen.

A very ill omen loomed over the city with an aura of death everywhere.
If he rushed in there blindly, it would probably be certain doom.
At the same time, he had also vaguely guessed the origins of this ill omen.

In the past, he had suffered a tremendous defeat against Ox-headed A’pang in his gamble on the Road to the Yellow Springs, yet he had somehow survived.
Ever since then, he saw a wisp of hope.

Le Tian’s unconcerned smile faded away.

He said to the three-legged golden toad under his feet, “My dark horse has won again! Now, it’s our turn to take a wager!” Then he smiled wryly.
“It’s basically like he’s on a roll, winning several dozen high-stakes gambles consecutively! He leaves me both excited and frantic!”