The head of the Exalted Immortal Sect was dead!

Faced with a horde of corpse demons rampaging through the sect, the orderly battle formations quickly collapsed and the sect’s immortals were once again routed. None of them noticed that, at the sect’s rear mountain, a hazy grey shadow suddenly came into view inside a small, unremarkable courtyard. It looked to be inserted into the sect’s lifepoint like a spike.

The Death Spike.

……

At the foot of Mount Exalted, the major’s capital city naturally noticed something afoot in the sect.

Martial law was quickly declared, and all of the formations in the sky above and ground below flared to life. Golden curtains of light trailed down from the heavenly court floating overhead and covered the city like a protective blanket. 

Soon after, the Exalted Legion emerged from every corner of the void and rushed to the sect’s rescue. Their mission was to keep the corpse demons confined to sect territory and prevent them from fanning out elsewhere.

Even the Exalted Immortal Sect, one of the strongest factions of Exalted Major, had suffered disastrous losses. If the corpse demons were...