Divine Venerable:

At the dawn of primordial chaos, in the ancient age, spiritual energy filled heaven and earth. Humans, gods, demons, and devils coexisted, while countless divine beasts guarded the secret realms of the Eight Directions. The order of the world was then governed by the First Divine Venerable. With supreme divine power, he sealed the Chaos Demon Abyss, suppressed fiends from beyond the realms, established the rules of the Three Realms and Six Paths, and protected the people in peace for ten thousand years. But the Heavenly Dao turns, and all heights must eventually fall. Ten thousand years ago, in a cataclysmic war between gods and demons, the First Divine Venerable exhausted his life's cultivation to repel an invasion by demons from beyond the realms. His body shattered and his soul perished, leaving behind only a wisp of his divine essence, hidden somewhere in heaven and earth as it awaited rebirth through reincarnation. After the war, all the ancient secret realms were sealed away, the divine beast clans scattered and went into hiding, and cultivation in the immortal world suffered a severe break in its inheritance. The once-prosperous ancient path to immortality gradually declined, leaving behind only countless buried legends and unexplored lands.

Ten thousand years later, Xuanzhou in Zhongzhou had become the heartland of the cultivation world. The various immortal sects and demonic schools carved up the land, while the righteous and demonic paths fought without end. People had long forgotten the legends of the ancient Divine Venerable, caring only to cultivate, ascend, and compete for immortal opportunities and magical treasures. The protagonist, Ling Cang, was the last disciple of Qingyun Sect, a declining immortal sect. Orphaned at a young age, he had been raised by the sect's final leader. With ordinary talent and meager cultivation, he was left alone to guard the dilapidated mountain gate after the sect's destruction, making do with training in the wilderness, gathering herbs, and tempering his body. Pure of heart, resilient, and patient, he neither sought shortcuts nor coveted worldly splendor. In a chaotic cultivation world where his peers scrambled to seize opportunities and chase fame and fortune, he remained true to himself, revered heaven and earth, and cared for all living things. This purest of Dao hearts was precisely the opportunity for rebirth that the Divine Venerable's essence had awaited for ten thousand years.

The Myriad Spirits Secret Realm, which appeared once every hundred years, emerged