Over four thousand years ago.
The kingdom of Great Qin, which still fell within the domain of the Human Path dynasties, stood at the pinnacle of the mortal world.
Half of the Hundred Schools of Thought had entered Qin!
It was not quite a place where Daluo Golden Immortals were worth less than dogs and Primordial Unity Golden Immortals roamed every street.
But if you walked through Xianyang City, Great Qin's capital, where people rubbed shoulders and their sweat fell like rain...
Then tossed a brick down from a restaurant and hit three people, two of them would be disciples of the Hundred Schools!
Any random person you met in official robes might look like a perfectly ordinary mortal.
But in reality, they could very well be a sage from one of the Hundred Schools!
There was a reason the Confucian Dao could not gain a foothold in Qin.
Back in King Xiangzhuang of Qin's reign, whether it was the Legalists, who had held a dominant position in Qin ever since Lord Shang's reforms...
Or those reclusive masters of the Hundred Schools who occasionally hid within Qin...
None of them could rival one man in standing!
The Lord of Martial Peace, Bai Qi.
The God of Slaughter, the Human Butcher. Over the course of his campaigns, the enemies who had died under his schemes and command...
Numbered a full eight hundred thousand!
By then, the Heavenly Court had finally realized that it had completely lost control of the mortal world, and at last reacted!
They could not simply abandon the mortal world like this!
After the Zhou Dynasty's destruction, faith across this land of the Human Race had grown by leaps and bounds.
But however much that faith grew, that was not the crucial issue.
Because all that faith failed