The Dou Qi Continent had not had it easy lately.
Ever since nearly ten years ago, when the two Dou Di experts born on the Dou Qi Continent, the Flame Emperor and the Mysterious Empress, joined forces to defeat the king of the Tunling Clan that had plagued the Dou Qi Continent for tens of thousands of years, the continent had spent a year recuperating. The Flame Emperor then held his grand wedding, symbolizing the end of the terrifying conflicts and calamities that had once been capable of affecting and endangering the entire Dou Qi Continent.
...That was how it should have been.
Yet all things in this world could not ultimately escape the words, "such was their destined calamity."
Even the Dou Qi Continent, which had already endured one great catastrophe, could not avoid it.
After the Flame Emperor and the Mysterious Empress ascended, many experts used the Spirit Crystal Land, formed from the remains of the Spirit Devouring Saint King, to break through realms that had trapped them for ages and step onto new heights. Even Dou Di experts, unseen for ten thousand years, began appearing one after another after Source Qi returned to the world.
Among them were transformations brought about by powerful forces that had accumulated strength for a long time, as well as obscure and unfamiliar existences that rose in a single stroke to become top forces on the Dou Qi Continent, capable of dominating their own territories.
Yet strangely, although Dou Di experts had been born one after another over the past ten years, the forces of the Dou Qi Continent had not visibly increased in number. Zhongzhou had also remained peaceful, as though those who had successively entered the supreme realm of Dou Di still maintained an unspoken understanding.
Though conflict continued across