Similar scenes played out repeatedly over the next thousand years.
The Human Race divided its forces into four groups, each heading in a different direction, yet all encountered much the same situation: almost no meaningful resistance.
Occasionally, a scattered tribe that failed to grasp the situation fled its ancestral homeland, leaving half its people crippled or dead.
The Human Race's territory doubled before the expansion finally stopped, and human tribes settled and flourished across the newly claimed lands.
Although the Human Race's large-scale migration had ended, its exploration of the Primordial World did not stop there.
Teams carefully selected by Shennong crossed the territories of many other races under the leadership of human cultivators in the Golden Immortal and Taiyi realms, appearing throughout the Primordial World.
One team heading south crossed rolling hills until it reached the foot of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
The name Hundred Thousand Mountains was no exaggeration. Seen from afar, dark mountains rose in overlapping ranks toward the horizon. Miasma filled the valleys, and their peaks vanished into the clouds, with no end in sight.
Sensing the terrifying presences within the mountains, the Golden Immortal leading the team ultimately chose not to venture farther in. Instead, the team established a camp in a river valley on the outskirts.
The land there was flat, with abundant water and lush vegetation, enough for over a thousand people to settle and thrive.
To the west, the humans reached a region cut off from the world outside, where steep peaks abounded and spiritual energy flourished.
The human leader, a Taiyi Realm cultivator, knew that this was the site of Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain, recorded in the race's secret texts. The cultivator also knew that beyond Longevity Mountain to the west lay an endless desert where living beings could scarcely