The Primordial Sacrificial Altar.
Qi Sheng slowly drew his gaze away from the Forum's Information Flow, where debates flooded the screen, and casually dismissed the floating Light Screen with his fingertips.
Twenty-one years had passed in a flash since he personally recruited Li Zheng and the other core members of the Hardcore Grinders Group to enter Monster World as Players.
The Player Legion under his command had taken root everywhere, its various schools branching and flourishing in a vibrant display of diversity.
To date, the Players had explored 103 major-region territories, including their starting point, the Pale Continent.
Yet the vast majority of Players still chose to operate within the Pale Continent over the long term.
In their eyes, this was also the most brutal battlefield of death.
Its rich lands bred endless greed and war.
The balance of power on the Pale Continent had also undergone earth-shattering changes.
A total of 383 factions had emerged from the brutality.
Players on the Forum selected eight factions with the potential to reach the top, dubbing them the "Eight Kings of the Pale Continent."
They were the Against the Tide Legion, the Soul Return Race, the Skyguard Race, the Rift Race, the Blue Lantern Race, the Starflow Alliance, the Libang Race, and the Dark Tide.
Unlike ordinary races with their isolated rules and secret arts, all eight factions possessed a rule linkage system, allowing them to interconnect the authority of rules from different systems and stack their combat power in an upward spiral.
Even with hundreds of millions of warriors, ordinary civilizations could only become nourishment before them.
Among the Eight Kings, the Dark Tide had risen the fastest.
In the early days, the Dark Tide on the Pale Continent had mainly consisted of the branch to which the Di Nian Evil