Dao Calendar year 20,048. The Dao Court was defeated in war.
The Ghost Dao emerged into the world. Darkness descended. Ghostly Fire burned across the sky, blotting out the sunlight.
The Endless Abyss, silent for untold tens of thousands of years, shattered its ancient seals. It spread from the depths of the Ancestral Court, swallowing the entire Great Wilderness Royal Court.
Upon the earth, countless grotesque Ghostly Slaves crawled out of the Endless Abyss. Like a calamity bearing "plague," they slaughtered and transformed every living being.
The entire Great Wilderness fell into utter chaos.
The Abyss spread, Ghostly Slaves devoured people, and there had already been the Famine Disaster and War Disaster.
The fates of countless people were thus plunged into even greater Chaos and harsher trials.
This chaos soon spread into the Wilderness as well, into the foundation that Mo Hua had exhausted his heart's blood to unify and establish when he was still the Divine Shaman.
In the Wilderness.
After Mo Hua, the Divine Shaman himself, departed, the Wilderness fell into a prolonged state of troubles within and without.
Internally, tribes constantly split apart over struggles for power.
Externally, the Black Vulture Tribe, Bifang Tribe, and remnants of other tribes continuously harassed them and stirred up rebellions.
Danzhu maintained unity within, while Lugu waged war without, sweeping away the remnants.
This situation continued until darkness truly descended.
A Ghostly Slave appeared near a tribe called Nianluo.
In a single night, the entire Nianluo Tribe was destroyed. They became neither human nor ghostly creatures, wandering everywhere and spreading the plague of the Ghost Dao into the depths of the Wilderness.
An enormous crisis hung over the Wilderness.
As disaster drew near, Danzhu and the others soon noticed the anomaly.
The Endless Abyss had not truly spread here yet,