After Shiheng led the humans from the various planes to settle in the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe on the Ancient Wilderness Frontier.
This human refuge, impoverished for generations and long subjected to bullying, finally welcomed a rare period of peace.
Year after year passed without conflict, safe through wind and rain, far from the clamor of war, their days quiet.
Yet across the vast Ancient Wilderness Frontier, the situation had already been turned upside down, plunging into an age of unprecedented chaos.
Every upheaval had begun with the fall of the supreme expert whose might had shaken the frontier-Seven-Star Fiend Jincang.
With the abrupt demise of this pillar of the Demon City of Reception's fighting strength, the balance of power across the frontier collapsed completely. Order shattered throughout its vast territories, crumbling beyond repair.
The Demon City of Reception, which had once dominated the region and ruled countless subordinate forces, lost its strongest pillar, and its immense network of power disintegrated in an instant.
The various Demon Race factions that had long been subordinate to Demon City, along with countless weak alien races that had survived beneath its protection, tore up their ancestral pledges of allegiance, broke free of Demon City's control, and carved out territories of their own.
With all restraint from above gone, the races entrenched themselves in their territories, and ambitions suppressed for endless years erupted without the slightest concealment or restraint.
Elite armies of every race rose in succession, waging campaigns everywhere, their battles sweeping across every inch of the ancient lands.
The powerful fought over vast, unguarded territories, plundered Heaven and Earth Wonders and supreme treasures of the laws scattered throughout the world, and wantonly swept through and annexed the weak, lowly tribes that had no strength to resist.
From then on, war raged