Once, when the Immortals fell, beings whose faith had crumbled died to follow their beliefs, even bringing about the extinction of entire clans and races!
For some beings, they were born needing an Immortal to believe in. That was their sole reason for living in this world!
After all the Immortals had fallen, they lost their reason to survive, and with it, their hope of living.
What followed was the suicide and martyrdom of countless beings!
This was something Li Taibai had not anticipated after slaying the Immortals. Faith in the Immortals had already put down deep roots in the hearts of the beings of the Elder Ancient Era.
Compared with the beings who died when the Immortals fell, this martyrdom was prolonged and hopeless.
Beings bereft of faith still had to live for those they cared about. Only once they had no attachments left did they go to their deaths as though finding release.
Such martyrdom even continued throughout the entire Dao-Demon War.
Or perhaps part of the reason for this war was that those beings who had lost their faith longed to find a reason to live.
To find meaning in their own existence after the Immortals fell, they hoped to find an answer amid endless slaughter.
It was at this time that two Buddhist sages found faith again!
They attained Dao Enlightenment beside the Lotus Flower Pond.
They comprehended the past, present, and future.
They gained the recognition of the supreme treasure left behind by the former Buddhist Immortals and inherited the legacies of two Buddhist Immortals, pouring their hearts and blood into translating vast numbers of Buddhist Sutras.
They found a path that would allow beings to have faith once more.
But by then, throughout Heaven and Earth, beings who had long since tired of worshipping