The years hurried by, and the seasons turned.
Time passed in the blink of an eye.
Qi Sheng stood on the Primordial Sacrificial Altar, overlooking the world's transformations.
Centuries passed, millennia brought change-the Player Faction had long since outgrown its initial immaturity.
The fledgling faction, which once had only three major schools-Damage-Taking, Mage, and Support-had now developed tens of thousands of branching schools through its vast Life Soul Database, each offering different ways to play.
It had officially entered an era of a hundred contending schools.
The Players had now reclaimed the Pale Continent Region and used it as their center to spread the flames of war across Monster World.
They had defeated countless prodigies and mighty races, while generation after generation of exceptionally talented new Players emerged.
The altar's scarlet fire blazed, sweeping across the ages and burning away the mists of history.
Over those long years, Qi Sheng had witnessed the Lord of Rot's growth and transformation as he devoured the origins of ancient Demon Gods one after another.
He had also pieced together the truth of the Dark Tide through the inherited information left behind by fallen Demon Gods.
The instigator of the Dark Tide Calamity that swept through billions of worlds was the Dark Tide God, creator of the Dark Tide System.
But the Dark Tide God had disappeared before the Dark Tide swept across heaven and earth.
Someone else had been the true hand directing the war of destruction.
That being was the strongest of the Demon Gods, ranked first among them: Transcendence.
And this strongest Demon God, the one moving the pieces, had an identity familiar to every Player.
He was none other than Di Nian Bully, who frequently interacted with Players and had received a series of titles from them, including Strategic Partner,