However, in the final battle, the Willow Deity and the White Divine Tower had driven back the Upper Realm's powerful experts, then entered the Gate of Origin and vanished.
From that moment on, communication between the Upper Realm and the Lower Realm had grown increasingly difficult, gradually leading to the Severing of Heaven and Earth.
It was also after that battle that an unparalleled expert had charged up from the Lower Realm. Ferocious beyond compare, he had stormed the gates of several supreme orthodoxies, provoking several great sects' Sect Masters into joining forces to hunt him down.
In the end, two fists could not contend with four hands, and that peerless expert had been forced to flee into the vast Uninhabited Zone.
Everyone had thought that would be the end of it. Yet several supreme sects had refused to give up. Joining forces and paying an enormous price, they had defied heaven's will and forcibly sent a group of Divine Fire Realm cultivators into the Lower Realm.
Of that group of Divine Fire Realm cultivators, only seven had survived.
Everyone had expected those seven Divine Fire Realm cultivators to seize all the Lower Realm's fortunes. No one had imagined that a single person would slaughter every last one of them.
And that person had been a mere youth, the Human Emperor of the Stone Kingdom, named Shi Hao.
However, although all seven Divine Fire Realm cultivators had been slain, the youth named Shi Hao had also succumbed to grievous wounds, leaving many sighing with regret.
All this news had been brought back by Upper Realm geniuses who had gone to temper themselves in the Lower Realm. Once it reached the Upper Realm, it caused a sensation and became the subject of widespread discussion.
More than four months had passed since