The world seemed peaceful enough. The ten suns had appeared in the sky at once, bringing devastation to all living things. Barely one in ten had survived. If not for the protection of beings with Great Divine Abilities, perhaps the Great Luo Immortal Realm would have fallen into utter silence.
At Mount Shouyang, Grand Master Xuandu followed the will of the Grand Supreme Dao De Tianzun and guarded the Eight Sceneries Palace and the human race. The humans had endured calamity after calamity, yet great protectors had watched over them. After this disaster, their numbers were severely diminished. A treasure of the human race, the Human Emperor Seal, had been nurtured at Mount Shouyang and bestowed upon Suiren Shi by Grand Supreme Elder Lao.
The human race recovered and rebuilt during this Great Calamity. It was their tireless spirit of self-improvement that had allowed them to rise again and again from disaster.
But the conflicts in this world would not cease because of the human race's tribulations. Tens of thousands of years were nowhere near enough to heal the wounds between the Wu and Demon Races. Instead, their hatred had only accumulated with time, until it erupted once more.
Houyi had shot down nine suns and pursued Chang'e, only to be slain by Xi He. The Wu Race had lost two Great Wu, while the Demon Race had lost nine Crown Princes. These were both races' deepest grievances, and no passage of time could erase such hatred.
Di Jun and Taiyi had spent three hundred thousand years in seclusion, comprehending the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars. They had then spent more than a hundred thousand years refining the Star Banners and searching for suitable Demon Race cultivators to manifest the formation. The Wu Race had also multiplied rapidly over