Year 1187 of the Cangming Calendar.
This year had actually been redefined after people from the Vast Void Realm entered this small world, where human life had almost been cut off.
This year truly was one of relentless turmoil for the Cangming Realm.
First came the crisis of the Ghost Corpse Race, then the war against the undead, followed by the war brought by Zuo Lunhui.
Qin Shaofeng, an elder of Endless Mountain, had risen to power with overwhelming force, only to suddenly vanish without a trace.
The hearts of the people of the Cangming Realm seemed to have remained in constant upheaval.
Then, amid bloody butcher's blades and the frenzied searches of experts, everyone was left perpetually uneasy.
Yet it was also this year that truly set the tone for the Cangming Realm.
The sea clans and the human race formed a complete alliance.
Humans and the other races of the Cangming Realm had also truly become as close as one family.
Their united development gave the impression that, while the Cangming Realm appeared to have lost many people, it had actually grown stronger by an unknown number of times, as though it were preparing to send countless people into the Starry Sky World.
Moreover, the direction of their cultivation had increasingly shifted toward militarization.
The Shining Star Alliance, a faction that no one had ever taken seriously—and that most people had never even heard of—had unexpectedly become the collective chief instructors of the entire Cangming Realm Alliance.
Almost none knew exactly how many people the Shining Star Alliance had.
But every member of the Shining Star Alliance seemed to have crawled out from mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Moreover, not a single one who came out and moved about was not disabled.
Ordinary people held deep