In the Immortal Realm's war against the All Heavens Worlds, the All Heavens Worlds suffered a crushing defeat. The Immortal Realm collapsed and split into four. Over forty thousand years, each of the Four Great Immortal Realms produced its own ruler.
Queen Mother of the West, Northern Bai Yu, the Southern Flame Emperor, and Eastern Qingmu—the lords of the Four Great Immortal Realms—ruled over the world.
As old and new powers changed hands, everything had become different during the forty thousand years the Immortal Venerable had vanished.
Yet many people knew that the Immortal Venerable had not died. He had merely disappeared.
Especially the rulers of the Four Great Immortal Realms, who had always kept watch for news of the Immortal Venerable.
All four had once followed the Immortal Venerable and knew his strength well. He had been too powerful, so powerful that all the monarchs of the heavens could only gaze after him in the dust.
Although they had now also stepped into the Monarch Realm, compared with the Immortal Venerable, the gap remained immense.
Everyone had selfish desires; immortals were no exception. Once the four Immortal Realm monarchs became rulers of their respective realms, they naturally did not wish to relinquish the authority in their hands.
After the four Immortal Realm monarchs ruled with unease in their hearts for thirty thousand years, the Immortal Venerable, who had been in seclusion healing his wounds, finally emerged.
Yet the human youth who had once fought bloodily for the rise and fall of mankind did not choose to reunify the Immortal Realm. Instead, he silently returned to the Eastern Immortal Realm, where he had once planted the Immortal Peach Tree.
Within the Immortal Palace, upon seeing the Immortal Venerable, the Immortal Lord Qingmu said nothing and returned to the latter's body.