Time flew like an arrow, and the sun and moon flashed past like a shuttle through a loom. In the world of cultivation, time was the cheapest thing of all, especially for those who had reached the Immortal Emperor Level, who could sometimes sleep away tens of millions of years.
Truly, a single day in the cave could mean a thousand years in the world outside.
Fifteen million years had passed since Shi Hao created Desolate Spirit Province. Over those years, tens of thousands of brutal wars had erupted between The Heavens Realm and the Weird Creatures. The Immortal Emperors on both sides were evenly matched. More than two hundred Immortal Emperors from The Heavens Realm held the Strange Immortal Emperors back at the edge of the Sacrificial Sea, while the Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors and Immortal Kings battled the experts of The Heavens Realm across several outlying provinces.
After the Free and Unfettered Emperor withdrew from public life, the strange Ancestors grew frenzied, launching war after war in an attempt to destroy The Heavens Realm and assimilate the entire realm with darkness.
Shi Hao had now entered the Sacrificial Dao Realm. To prevent the strange Ancestors from making a move, he charged straight onto the Plateau and drew them out. Then, using the Lure-the-Tiger-Away-from-the-Mountain Stratagem, he killed the Fifth Ancestor for good and transformed one of his clones into the Fifth strange Ancestor to infiltrate the Plateau. His goal was to refine the weird substance there to strengthen himself. Shi Hao had now developed the Two Principles Heavenly Art to the Immortal Emperor level, so it could refine weird substance completely. It was simply very slow, nowhere near as absurdly powerful as Jun Moxiao's method.
Meanwhile, another of his clones remained stationed in Calamity Land, blocking the Ancestors from leaving,