Three thousand years later.
The Northern Wasteland.
The humans of the Northern Wasteland had spread throughout the region, and some tribes had even begun migrating to other regions.
Cultivation of the Immortal Arts had become widespread across virtually the entire Northern Wasteland. The Immortal Arts gave them great strength and similar bearings, and a powerful new race was taking shape.
Within a small human tribe in the southern Northern Wasteland.
Early morning, in the faint sunlight.
A bright-eyed youth with black hair cascading like a waterfall walked out of the tribe with several powerfully built young human men, heading deep into the mountain forest. He wore animal hides, held the Stone Sword, and carried a bow and arrows on his back.
Today was the day an envoy from the great central human tribe would come to inspect their tribe. They planned to hunt a few forest deer to serve as food for their guest.
The youth was one of the rare people in the human tribes with an exceptional talent for cultivating the Immortal Arts.
He already counted as a prospective member of the Immortal Clan.
Although most tribal humans could cultivate the Immortal Arts, they spent their entire lives lingering at the threshold of a beginner, with one or two supernatural tricks to make an impression, yet found it difficult to ascend to higher ranks.
Of course, this was also one reason the human population had surged and spread throughout the Northern Wasteland.
No one spoke any longer of humanity's earliest ancestors, that band of apes who had fled from the Eastern Wasteland.
After their evolution, Tai Shang had revised the Evolution Method many times. The humans of this era were already fundamentally different from those original apes.
Once the human population had grown, Tai Shang had also withdrawn