Lu Yun and the little fox had been in the netherdark for eight years. During those years, however, the human race hadn’t followed its earlier trajectory to unite under the banner of the Yan Tribe. 

Rather, a great war had broken out, sweeping almost the entire race into chaos.

Lie Shan’s rise in power and defeat of a number of connate demon gods had instilled a dread of humans in the other races of the great wilderness. Moreover, humanity had greatly improved their constitution through mastery of medicine and agriculture, as well as made qualitative progress in terms of strength through their practice of the qi refinement method.

In the past, true divinity had been the highest bar possible for the human race. Over the past eight years, however, humans had seen more than one of their own ascend to the celestial divine realm!

Lie Shan’s appearance greatly concerned the chaos realm demon gods. Deathly afraid of another Lie Shan, they fanned the flames of civil discord among humanity so they would be more concerned with...