A thousand years after the gods departed, the Queen Mother of the West, Filiya, returned to Kunlun and resided in West Kunlun, overseeing all divine beings beneath heaven (divine beasts, demigods, and others).
The Luo River Goddess, Feng Luobin, returned to the Luo River to continue her cultivation, but she also often appeared along its banks, gazing at the starry sky and sighing.
The Mortal Realm.
By then, the concentration of supernatural energy between heaven and earth had fallen to an unimaginable level.
Humans and beasts with supernatural talents could scarcely emerge upon the earth anymore.
Even when they did, they would only be regarded as unusual people or strange beasts, with meager strength and lifespans no different from those of ordinary humans.
Yet precisely because of this, the small tribes of the Mortal Realm gave rise to the profession of priest.
By this time, the human tribes upon the earth had long since moved out of their caves to live on the land.
And in a place called Shangqiu, a tribe named "Sui" gave birth to an extraordinary sage-Suiren.
Suiren possessed wisdom and vision beyond those of ordinary people.
Others walked around fires, but he went wherever there was fire; others settled far from fire, but he often lived where fire burned; others casually discarded any small animals they found burned to death, but whenever he found such animals, he tore off some meat and placed it in his mouth to savor carefully.
In the region where the Sui Tribe lived, there was a kind of tree called Sui Wood.
Its twisting branches spread over ten thousand qing, clouds and mist rose among them, and when birds pecked at the Sui Wood, brilliant sparks burst forth.
Seeing this, Suiren suddenly grasped the method of breaking off a Sui branch