Divine Shaman Lord had vanished.
From Dao Calendar 20,042, New Great Wilderness Calendar 9, the First Year of the Divine Shaman, when the War of Deities began in the Wilderness—
to New Great Wilderness Calendar 15, the sixth year of the Divine Shaman.
Five years of divine war had united the Wilderness; one year of reform had built up livelihoods and fundamentally transformed the Wilderness's landscape.
Yet after that, Divine Shaman Lord—the man who had founded great achievements, wielded supreme Divine Authority, freed the barbarian slaves, constructed the Grand Array, and won the love and reverence of countless people—vanished without a trace.
For a long time afterward, no one saw him anywhere in the Wilderness.
As for why Divine Shaman Lord had disappeared, opinions differed wildly.
Some said that Divine Shaman Lord had pleaded the cause of all living beings, provoking terrifying enemies who had joined forces to assassinate him.
Some said that Divine Shaman Lord had offended the upper echelons of the Wilderness's major tribes and had been schemed to death by those despicable, sinister nobles acting together.
Others said that something had gone wrong during Divine Shaman Lord's breakthrough, and he had died from cultivation deviation.
Of course, the version more people believed was that Divine Shaman Lord had not died at all, but had returned to the heavens and "converted" to the God Lord's kingdom.
Divine Shaman Lord was not human.
He was the "child of the gods." He possessed human flesh and blood and walked the mortal world, yet he wielded the mighty power of Divine Punishment and bore a heart that pitied all living beings.
He had descended from the heavens in the God Lord's name, unifying the Wilderness and saving all living beings from Famine Disaster and war.
Now that the Wilderness was united,