Mountains and Sea, Old and New Eras

(PS: Sorry for the wait. I'd only just arrived at my new place, and there were all sorts of things to sort out, including setting up my computer again. You may also have noticed that there were especially many typos these past few days, far more than usual. That was because I was writing on a laptop. Now that my computer is set up again, it should be much better. Starting tomorrow, I'll first return to two updates a day. My apologies again for the delays these past few days. I'm sorry, everyone.)

"Once, the Mountain and Sea Realm was called the Primordial Realm. Like other transcendent great worlds, it was ruled by the strong preying upon the weak, filled with internal chaos and disorder. Whoever had the biggest fist was king. The Heavenly Dao favored only the strong. In those days, humans were ants, livestock, the lowliest things beneath heaven. The strongest beings in the world were demon kings, colossal beasts, ancient gods, aberrations..."

"At the time, the Primordial Realm was also boundlessly vast. Mountains and rivers thrust straight into the skies, while famous mountains and great sites all had masters. There were even certain Roots projecting into this realm, teaching their own paths and gathering faith from all corners. The strongest races then were known as the Myriad Races, while humanity did not even rank among the ten thousand races of the Primordial Realm."

"All of that continued until the appearance of a great man—the first and only World Lord..."

"The Primordial Realm of that era was round heaven and square earth. The entire world was a single enormous, boundless continent, with seawater at its edges. Those seas led into the void and occasionally connected to other planes, making them the Primordial Realm's weakest point."

"The first World