Fang Cheng stood respectfully atop the Four Symbols Sacred Platform as another distant, ethereal voice reached his ears:
"Fang Cheng, you are the first Dharma True Monarch in the fifty-thousand-year history of our Qianyu Heaven to win the Spirit Ruins Magic Competition as an Outer World Cultivator. To show the respect of our Qianyu Heaven, the three of us have come here together. If you have any difficulties on your path of cultivation, you may ask any of us."
Fang Cheng had already prepared his words. He began, "Venerable Immortal Masters, this disciple's home, the Red Profound Realm, has entered its Age of Last Tribulation. After a Tier Six Celestial Demon corrupted a Spirit Immortal and attained the station of a Demon Lord, it was besieged by several other Spirit Immortals. It escaped into my Red Profound Realm and has corrupted the Celestial Dao…"
He slowly explained the predicament facing all the Cultivators of the Red Profound Realm—
