The Devouring Party originated in Swallow Province, one of Great Xia's thirty-six Upper Provinces. Over time, outsiders came to call them the Devouring Party for that reason.
In the 687th year of the Black Iron Calendar, a mysterious stone stele was unearthed in Swallow Province, Great Xia, shaking the world.
No one knew what the stele was made of. The entire monument could not be damaged in the slightest by any method or means. Even the most powerful high-ranking knights could not harm it one bit. The moment this mysterious stele appeared, it immediately caused a sensation throughout Great Xia. Countless high-ranking knights who refused to believe it flocked to Swallow Province, wanting to see whether the mysterious stele truly could not be destroyed by any means, as the rumors claimed. It was not only ordinary knight experts; even Great Xia's seven major sects and Xuanyuan Hill were alarmed, sending experts to Swallow Province to investigate.
That mysterious stele had indeed utterly exceeded people's imagination. No matter how many transformations a knight had undergone, no matter what methods they exhausted, they could not damage the mysterious stele in the slightest.
Later, several of Great Xia's top alchemy masters examined it and reached an even more shocking conclusion—the substance that made up the mysterious stele violated all laws of material ionization. The stele could resist every element, every kind of energy, and every substance. No matter what state it was in, the atoms and porous structure of its material remained fixed. In other words, time did not exist for that stele. It truly possessed the quality of immortality.
Immortality? Those two words alone were enough to drive everyone mad, especially for a people like the Hua Clan, who saw themselves as the God Race and regarded freedom in the Heavenly Dao