Spring and Winter collided in my soul, the two seasons rejoining, their powers feeding into one another. There was Divinity here. True Divinity. In the eternal seasons representing the turning of the world and time itself, carrying life and death alongside them through this voyage into eternity.And now, I was there, the meeting point of these two, and I found myself standing before something larger than anything I had seen before. Larger than even the divine beasts. It was Heaven and Earth themselves. In the truest sense.The broken pieces, the fractured cycle, now they began to join and something in my soul began to heal. My vessel, a shell that now contained the two forces, instead of bursting with the two colliding powers, began to resonate, and heal, the strains on my pathways began to mend themselves.The cycle of the world began to heal in front of my very eyes.Power surged, harmony resonating. It was endless, seamless, from one into another. I felt Feng Sha and Qinglong, at t

Something had changed. And I wasn’t talking about the Azure Dragon. I’d felt it while on the way back, the change in the world around me. I hadn’t truly understood what it had been, but it filled me with a bad premonition nonetheless. I’d had a thought gnawing at my chest for some time now. If the demons had known the Azure Dragon would be in the Cradle, and had even managed to get there before us, then why had Yang Shen himself not arrived there to get the Divine Beast? I would not have had a chance against him, and the entire idea had been to get there faster than him. Even with Feng Sha’s help, things would’ve been difficult, but sending one of his demons instead… It left me with a bad feeling.Just what was he doing instead?The carriage thudded around us as we arrived back at Seventh Peak city, and I found the air filled with a buzz of energy. But not in a good way. There was anxious nervousness filling the winds, whispers flowing through the air, something had happened and whate

I nodded.“We’ve been utilizing the spirit beasts to be able to accelerate and grow food even in this harsh winter, especially with Twilight’s help. We believe it may also be her influence that is causing more and more mortals to awaken to Chi and learning how to cultivate while they’re at it. Nearly all the higher militia members now possess Chi and have been actively using it to bolster their abilities. It’s even caused some of the older cultivators to start picking up the weapons and learning how to use them as well. So, things on that front are improving. The ranks are becoming more solidified, and the divide between cultivators and mortals is starting to fall rapidly as they fight side by side against a common foe. More and more often, many are seen in mixed groups, mingling together,” Qiao Ying said.I nodded, glad. That had been one thing I’d wanted to induce and help promote if I could. I thought back to the history text books I’d read on war myself. Everyone knew of the world

Hao Gang patrolled the external border around the seventh peak. He’d been a farmer just a few months ago, in one of the many villages scattered around the seventh peak. But things had changed this winter. Hao Gang had been one of the first to feel it, the ominous feeling that had permeated things. The spirits in the forests were acting differently, uneasy, and afraid. So when a man from the new Divine Tree sect had arrived at their village, he’d been one of the first to volunteer.Now he walked a rifle on his back, and exploding alchemical pills in his pouch, with two new recruits trailing behind him. It had been rapid, everything that had been happening and the changes being made. The people of the sect kept bringing out terrifying new inventions and handing them out to people like nothing. They built a wall securing the village. To do that, they used liquid stone like glue to piece it all together. They built roads and gates, and now others from the sect much like him all patrolled

Zhang soared through the skies, watching over the aircrafts. It was not just him, each aircraft had a cultivator with the ability to Sky Step going along with it to keep the aircraft and the pilot safe in case anything happens, but it was on him to coordinate them all.He himself had a jade slip in his hand. He could use his Chi to write characters, and by using a technique rather similar to sending, the words would get transmitted to the person who held the other jade slip. With the help of that, Zhang was watching over the entire seventh peak and surrounding areas, as he flew through the skies, hovering just below the clouds.The world was chaos from up here. Demons had struck at nearly all of the outer perimeters of their defenses, and they had done so with more preparation than Zhang had anticipated out of them. Despite all that was going on, they’d clearly managed to gain some insight into the capacity of the seventh peak to defend itself.Not that it would matter all that much.