Marshland, a mysterious kingdom stretching endlessly for ten thousand miles, was surrounded entirely by vast oceans and marshes. There was no land, making it difficult for humans to survive.
The starry sky was boundless, and humanity ruled the great world of mortals. Yet in unknown regions, other races besides humans existed as well.
Marshland was a nation ruled by the Demon Race.
Rumor had it that within the mighty Marshland Imperial Family of the distant Marshland Imperial City, Heavenly Dao Realm experts had already emerged, and the strongest among them had nearly reached the Monarch Realm.
Yet rumors were, after all, only rumors. In this era when humans ruled the starry sky, the Demon Race had withdrawn into one corner and rarely appeared before the world.
At Marshland's border, on a patch of land rising above the great marsh, stood a simple little courtyard. Within it, a white-haired woman dressed in white quietly planted medicinal herbs day after day, year after year.
No one knew how long the white-haired woman had lived here, nor did anyone know her origins. Only the strange birds flying overhead bore witness to the changing years, one year after another.
The appearance of humans in Marshland had ultimately drawn the attention of the great demons nearby.
For thousands of years, Marshland's great demons had rarely appeared in the human world. However, any humans who mistakenly entered Marshland had never managed to leave alive.
The Demon Race eating humans was their natural instinct. In the era of their greatest strength, they had even raised humans like livestock for food. Now that the Demon Race had weakened, they dared not provoke humanity on their own initiative, but neither would they spare humans who delivered themselves to their doorsteps.
Yet strangely enough, the white-haired woman had lived safely