"Ah!" On the disciple recruitment ceremony of the Dao Tian Immortal Sect, a young man who had just joined the sect let out a low cry and suddenly opened his eyes.
Facing the strange gazes from the people beside him, Li Xuanshen paid no heed. Instead, he looked at the unfamiliar surroundings with a hint of bewilderment:
"Who am I? Where is this?"
*Dong!*
A certain inexplicable tremor rippled in Li Xuanshen's heart. The next moment, a torrent of memories surged forth from the depths of his soul.
"I, I am Li Xuanshen, I've just joined the Dao Tian Immortal Sect..."
"No, I... I am Qin Shang!! This is the Primordial Land!!!"
Everything that happened before his last death flashed before his eyes. The sense of alienation, as if he had been blinded, completely vanished. Only now did Qin Shang realize how ridiculous and false that so-called outer world was.
"A scam... it's all a scam..."
"Primordial... what exactly have you done to this world?!"
Qin Shang sensed Li Xuanshen's memories with horror. This was a memory of another major change.
As the direct son of the Elder of Bestowal, Li Xuanshen, despite only being at the Dao Path cultivation level, knew many secrets of the cultivation world.
At this time, it had been tens of millions of years after the second Immortal-Demon War.
Legend had it that in the last Immortal-Demon War, the entire world was ravaged and shattered by the conflict. Fortunately, the Heavenly Dao took pity on all beings, allowing the world to recover from its ruin, so that humans and demons could once again flourish.
And the Dao Tian Immortal Sect, where Qin Shang was currently located, was the strongest force in the current Primordial Land. Its Sect Master, Zhao Wuji, had even reached the pinnacle realm of Ascending Immortal Ninth Layer.
But Qin Shang felt everything was so horrifying. He suddenly looked up at the clear sky. According to the sect's teachings, outside the Primordial Land, there were two heavens and one earth!
Besides the heavens and earth of the Immortal Venerable and the Demon Lord, in the last Immortal-Demon War, a peerless cultivator named "Zhao Xinyuan" was favored by the Heavenly Dao, stepped into the unfathomable Void Refinement realm, and finally opened another heaven for this world!
"Heavenly Dao... the Heavenly Dao must have mutated long ago..."
Qin Shang, with an inexplicable feeling in his heart, said no more. He merely lowered his head silently and spoke to the increasingly tattered Dragon Slaying within his spiritual sea:
"This time... let's take a good look at what tricks this Heavenly Dao and Primordial are playing!"
...
Two hundred years later, on the Primordial Land, a peerless Sword Demon emerged.
The Sword Demon Li Xuanshen rebelled against the Dao Tian Immortal Sect, and even at the Dao Path level, he slew the pursuing Elder of Rainbow Transformation!
This battle shocked the world, and from then on, the name Sword Demon spread like wildfire throughout the heavens and earth.
Li Xuanshen, with one sword, challenged the immortal and demonic forces of the world, his cultivation growing stronger with each passing day.
Such a threat repeatedly drew the attention of cultivators at the Rainbow Transformation and even Dharma Body realms.
But the Rainbow Transformation couldn't defeat him! The Dharma Body couldn't capture him!
In the chase and escape, three hundred years passed in a flash...
"Rebellious disciple! Why did you betray my Dao Tian Immortal Sect?! When did the sect ever mistreat you?!" The Elder of Bestowal looked at his own son with anger.
He couldn't understand why the young man before him chose to betray them, but after three hundred years of pursuit, his body and mind were utterly exhausted.
Once he brought this child to justice, he would resign his elder position and go into seclusion.
But the Sword Demon, who felt so unfamiliar to the Elder of Bestowal, simply looked at him calmly and said:
"Li Xuanshen naturally doesn't want to rebel, but I, Qin Shang, must rebel! Everything about my joining the Dao Tian might be a scheme of the Heavenly Dao!"
The Elder of Bestowal roared, "Xuanshen! You've contracted a madness! Even the Sect Master personally investigated you. You are not a reincarnation of Qin Shang! You are Li Xuanshen!!"
"The Heavenly Dao blesses all beings, how could it scheme against a mere cultivator like you?!"
Qin Shang said nothing, merely raising the Dragon Slaying Dao Sword in his hand:
"I am not the one who is mad, but you..."
"You have never known the truth of the world..."
In this battle, the Dao Tian traitor Li Xuanshen, at the Rainbow Transformation level, slew the Dao Tian Sect's Dharma Body realm Elder of Bestowal!
After this, the Sect Master personally intervened, and the Sword Demon Li Xuanshen fled for a thousand years!
During this period, he slew countless immortal and demonic disciples of the world!
The Dao Tian Immortal Sect Master Zhao Wuji made a solemn vow: he would not ascend until Li Xuanshen was slain!
Another thousand years passed, on the Primordial Land's highest peak, Immortal Stepping Peak!
Zhao Wuji, who had delayed his immortal tribulation through various means, roared at the Sword Demon before him in anger:
"Li Xuanshen! You betrayed my Dao Tian Immortal Sect and slaughtered my disciples! Do you know your crime!"
Qin Shang ignored the Ninth Layer Ascending Immortal before him. He stood on the peak, gazing at the myriad phenomena of the mortal world from this highest peak:
"This world is called Primordial... are we destined to let Primordial plunder it at will?"
Seeing this, Zhao Wuji's anger intensified. He unleashed his quasi-supreme Dao technique.
In an instant, the heavens and earth darkened, and the wind and clouds changed!
"Wretch! Die!!!"
Nine layers of heavenly thunder descended, and the nine netherworld fires surged from the earth to devour souls.
Under the Dao technique, Zhao Wuji's offensive power was considered the pinnacle of combat.
But the next moment, on Immortal Stepping Peak, a sword gleam appeared!
Heavenly thunder vanished! Earthly fire extinguished!
The Sword Demon sheathed his long sword. He quietly stood up, no longer looking at Zhao Wuji. Instead, he directly plunged into the mortal world's myriad phenomena below the mountain:
"If Primordial has indeed tampered with the Heavenly Dao, then I shall become Primordial myself!"
"And destroy these mortal beings!!!"
The Sword Demon descended the mountain, leaving only Zhao Wuji on Immortal Stepping Peak, turned into a statue.
*Sizzle...*
A red mark appeared between Zhao Wuji's brows. The peerless true immortal at the Ninth Layer Ascending Immortal looked at the departing Sword Demon with utter despair in his eyes:
"Supreme... Sword Dao..."
*Boom!!!*
From within the red mark, a sword light exploded!
Zhao Wuji! Perished!
After cultivating for two thousand five hundred years, the Sword Demon Li Xuanshen, on Immortal Stepping Peak, slew the Dao Tian Sect Master Zhao Wuji with his supreme sword dao!
After this battle, the Sword Demon went mad! He slaughtered all living beings in the world!
Under his fearsome reputation, the immortal path formed an alliance to jointly attack the Sword Demon!
However, many from the demonic path admired the Sword Demon's supreme ferocity and willingly submitted to him!
For a time, the Primordial Land was once again plunged into endless war!
But the Sword Demon, who mastered the supreme sword dao, was too formidable! For a time, no one from the righteous path in the world could oppose him!
But soon, things took a new turn!
From the two heavens, one by one, the previously ascended grand dao experts descended once more!
No one knew how many grand dao cultivators had ascended to the outer heavens during the years of these two Immortal-Demon Wars.
But in the subsequent battles, no matter how ferocious the Sword Demon was, the grand dao cultivators from the two heavens seemed to appear endlessly.
The Sword Demon's ferocity was, for a time, suppressed by the infinite grand dao ascendants.
However, something unexpected happened.
From within the Netherworld, founded by the Demon Lord, grand dao realm demon immortals were also dispatched.
The third Immortal-Demon War had begun...