"The Confucian Sage came from the Mortal World, and all his lifetime's cultivation was attained in the secular world. Thus, he could not bear to see mortals suffer because of Immortal Cultivators..."
"That realm without spiritual energy was the Tenth Realm. With his heaven-reaching cultivation, the Confucian Sage forcibly cleaved through the barriers between the Tenth Realm and the other nine realms, allowing the mortals of the other nine realms to enter and leave the Tenth Realm freely."
"With no Immortal Cultivators, the Tenth Realm became a paradise for mortals."
"Mortals could live and work in peace in the Tenth Realm, never again having to worry that cultivating immortality might one day cost them their lives."
"And after the Confucian Sage cleaved through the barriers between the Tenth Realm and the other nine realms, for some unknown reason, the heavens and earth of the other nine realms developed consciousness. Under this consciousness, national fortune power emerged, and emperors among mortals could borrow it to protect the mortals within their countries."
"We thought the world would go on in peace like this forever, but we never imagined that one day, something would go wrong..."
Great Calamity paused here, a trace of complexity flashing through her eyes.
"Ten thousand years ago... in the World Without Immortals that the Confucian Sage established for mortals in the Tenth Realm, for some unknown reason, there appeared out of thin air a single..."
Great Calamity looked at Su Mo in her arms, her expression sorrowful.
"...Flower of the Other Shore!"
Su Mo looked at the withered flower of the other shore in his hand, his whole body trembling.
Great Calamity continued, "This flower of the other shore carried a certain heaven-reaching power of rules, which seemed tainted with the karma of the River of Time."
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