Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

More than half of its summit had collapsed, the entire mountain looking as if gnawed upon by dogs, patchy with green and yellow, a truly ugly sight.

Anyone could see that the mountain had experienced a catastrophe.

Even the mist that usually surrounded the peak had dissipated without a trace.

Its ugliest side was laid bare for all to see!

Wang Chen, who had crept silently near Sunset Peak, looked at the mountain that resembled a featherless phoenix, and a desolate feeling welled up in his heart.

But Wang Chen couldn\'t afford to wallow in sorrowful contemplation; his primary goal for coming here was to see his home.

However, Wang Chen found that the manor he had invested so much effort and hard work into had been completely leveled to the ground!

All the Spirit Fields, orchards and herb gardens were destroyed, the ground laden with numerous traces of spell attacks, with craters brimming with turbid mudwater.

If not for the remaining rubble and fragmented walls of the houses, Wang Chen wouldn\'t have recognized this ruin as his homeland.

But then, it made sense.

When the nest is overturned, no eggs remain intact.

With the Cloud Sun Sect gone, apart from Taihao Peak whose members ascended to the Upper Realm, how could the other eight peaks have fared any better!

Looking at the situation, it seemed there had been intense conflict between some Cloud Sun cultivators and the Guiyuan Gate.

Wang Chen also discovered that the concentration of spiritual energy here was less than a tenth of what it used to be!

The higher-ups of the Cloud Sun Sect were truly ruthless, draining the Spirit Vein and initiating peak ascension after a century\'s planning, leaving behind a colossal mess.

After this disaster, Sunset Peak was truly doomed.

No wonder Wang Chen hadn\'t encountered any Guiyuan Gate cultivators on his stealthy approach.

All his caution had been in vain!

Wang Chen\'s heart sank even more.

Although he had never felt a strong sense of belonging to the Cloud Sun Sect,

he still had feelings for the home that had once sheltered him and provided for his basic needs.

Now, everything was gone.

With a trace of despondency, he headed towards Peach Blossom Valley.

The once babbling stream was now dry to the bottom, with dead fish of various sizes scattered among the pebbles, and most of the trees along its banks were broken, the surviving ones barely clinging to life.

A picture of decay.

When Wang Chen arrived at Peach Blossom Valley, the peach grove at the valley entrance had also vanished, the trees looking as if they had been scorched by a fierce fire, the ground covered with charred marks.

Entering the valley, he saw that the waterfall at the far end had disappeared as well, with the deep pool below holding some water still.

But it looked filthy.

As for his late wife\'s grave in Chang Chun, it too had vanished without a trace!

Wang Chen looked around, the desolate and bleak surroundings marking the absence of the valley\'s once beautiful scenery.

A myriad of memories surged in Wang Chen\'s mind.

He stood there dazed, lost in a moment of stupor.

"You\'ve returned."

Suddenly, a familiar voice reached Wang Chen\'s ears.

"Master!"

Wang Chen was startled, then overjoyed.

He spun around and saw Chang Chun standing not far away, smiling gently at him!

Without a second thought, Wang Chen removed the Thousand Mechanisms Changing, bowed deeply, and said, "Disciple Wang Chen pays respects to Master!"

Wang Chen truly hadn\'t expected that after such a major incident at the Cloud Sun Sect, Chang Chun would still remain at Sunset Peak, not having left.

He had thought that his master ascended to the Upper Realm with Taihao Peak!

Wang Chen\'s mind was suddenly filled with countless questions, yet he didn\'t know where to start.

"No need for such formalities."

Chang Chun waved his hand and drew two large rocks over: "Let\'s sit down and talk."

Wang Chen sat down respectfully across from him and asked, "Master, have you been here all this time?"

This was the question he wanted to know the most.

Chang Chun smiled and said, "Yes, after Ji Guantao took people away, I didn\'t want to go, so I stayed."

Wang Chen was puzzled: "Why?"

His questions were actually multifaceted.

For example, why did Ji, the great Sect Leader, flee to the Upper Realm, and why didn\'t Chang Chun leave, among other things.

Chang Chun sighed and said, "It\'s a long story."

When Cloud Sun was first established, it was a completely independent Immortal Gate, neither a subsect of Jiuyue Gate nor affiliated with any other power.

However, after the Ancestor of Cloud Sun ascended, the Cloud Sun Sect, lacking strong leadership, was coerced by Jiuyue Gate to sign the Taoist alliance contract, and from then on, its fate was no longer in its own control.

For a thousand years, Cloud Sun Sect provided Jiuyue Gate with countless resources and talents, enduring silently like a tenant farmer under the exploitation and demands from the Upper Sect.

And that wasn\'t all, Jiuyue Gate also built the Demon-Suppression Cavern beneath Taihao Peak, suppressing a Great Monster, and tasked Cloud Sun Sect with guarding and maintaining the Demon Suppressing Grand Array.

And there was no end date to this task!

The lifeblood of the Cloud Sun Sect was being drained away by Jiuyue Gate bit by bit.

The ambitious and strategic Ji Guantao planned for a hundred years and set this grand scheme of heaven and earth, which, against all odds, he actually succeeded in.

"Although Ji Guantao is stingy and ungrateful…"

Chang Chun said, "he not only did nothing wrong in this matter but actually preserved the lifeblood of Cloud Sun!"

"The Spiritual Tide has risen, and a great calamity is approaching. If Ji Guantao hadn\'t done this, Cloud Sun Sect would have been destined to be sacrificed by Jiuyue Gate, and at that time, it\'s feared that not even the Taoist Vein could have been preserved."

A Spiritual Tide, the tide of Spiritual Energy, pervades all worlds like the tides of the ocean, rising and falling.

The interval between the rising and falling tide is often hundreds or even thousands of years.

And it affects different worlds in various ways.

The last surge of spiritual energy in the Mountain and Sea Realm was a thousand years ago, lasting nearly a hundred years!

Which is to say, for the following several hundred years to the present, it has been a "low tide."

As the saying goes, extremes give rise to reversal, and the end of the low tide is the beginning of the next high tide.

During the period of the rising Spiritual Tide, nature\'s spiritual energy becomes more and more abundant, which of course is beneficial for cultivators.

The Spiritual Tide can also give birth to new Spirit Veins and Spirit Stone Mines!

However, at the same time, the reproduction and advancement speed of the Monster Race will greatly increase, and in fact, the dangers faced by humans will become more and more numerous and severe!

The tide of spiritual energy will make Evil Wraiths more active and powerful.

This is the most troublesome aspect!

"This time it\'s a millennium tide."

Chang Chun spoke with grave seriousness: "For our human race, it is a great calamity. Even True Immortals with Nascent Souls dare not guarantee their safety, and the major sects will definitely go into seclusion."

"Wang Chen, once you break through and advance to a higher tier, try to find a way to the Upper Realm."

"The Mountain and Sea Realm is no longer suitable for extended residence!"

"After this great calamity, it would be good if one in ten survives!"

Wang Chen\'s face instantly changed.

One in ten surviving; what a terrifying catastrophe that would be!

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