On the peak of a mountain a thousand zhang high, the land around it was flat and endless.
The world there was divided into two halves.
One side shone with a golden radiance that brought peace and serenity to the heart.
The other side was filled with dark, deathly qi, an evil aura that radiated nothing but destruction and death.
At the very center of this dividing line lay two books—
one black and one golden.
All around them were broken weapons and shattered artifacts. Blood had flowed so much that it formed a river.
Beneath that river of blood were countless wailing spirits—ghosts, demons, and vengeful souls crying endlessly.
Each of them had once been a supreme immortal expert, a mighty cultivator whose aura alone once carried the power to destroy heaven and earth with a single strike.
Scattered across the battlefield were countless skeletons.
Some emitted golden light, while others radiated sinister dark qi.
Though the battlefield had existed for millions upon millions of years, the bones remained pure white, still preserving the enormous forms of the warriors from both sides.
Some veins still carried fresh crimson blood.
Some hearts still beat faintly.
It felt as if those beings were still alive—only their flesh and skin had been stripped away.
Divine weapons and spiritual artifacts floated through the air across the battlefield.
Precious treasures, cultivation manuals, secret techniques, and rare artifacts covered the ground everywhere.
This tragic battlefield was known as Oán Ma Peak.
Legend said that this was the place where an ancient war occurred during the era known as the Age of the Divine Cultivators.
The Divine Cultivator Era was the most powerful age of cultivation in history.
Experts were as numerous as clouds in the sky.
The Demonic Dao, the Immortal Dao, and the Buddhist Path all possessed endless resources and countless geniuses.
Thus, paradoxically, it was also the most peaceful era among the three factions.
However, one day, the Demonic Dao gave birth to a terrifying existence—
a Heaven-Defying One.
He attempted to forge a supreme artifact that would allow him to truly defy the heavens.
The Demonic Dao turned cruel and merciless.
They slaughtered the Immortal and Buddhist sects relentlessly, plunging the entire world into suffering.
Wherever the Demonic Dao passed, rivers of blood and mountains of corpses followed.
Seeing this catastrophe, the two great righteous factions—the Buddhist Path and the Immortal Path—joined forces.
Together they created a forbidden existence:
the Immortal-Buddha Child.
This being was born to counter all evil traits of demonic artifacts.
His soul was refined for ten thousand years.
His bones were forged for another ten thousand years.
His tendons were tempered for thirty thousand years.
And two more ten-thousand-year cycles were spent constructing an incomparably complex, chaotic, and powerful meridian system—the most profound cultivation body ever created during the Divine Cultivator Era.
In total, the process lasted fifty thousand years.
The Immortal and Buddhist sects placed all their hopes upon him.
He did not disappoint.
In merely five thousand years after his birth, he had already grown into the strongest cultivator of both sects, bringing balance to the war against the Demonic Dao.
For seven thousand years, the three factions remained locked in a stalemate.
Then the Immortal-Buddha Child created a new supreme scripture—
The Demon-Suppressing Sutra.
With this, the Immortal and Buddhist factions finally began to gain the upper hand against the Demonic Dao.
But perhaps the great sect masters of the two factions had been too hasty.
When they crafted his body from the lives of countless beings across the three realms, they forgot one crucial thing—
They never gave him emotions.
They never gave him the compassion of Buddhism.
As he relentlessly hunted down the Demonic Dao, the beings of the Three Realms also suffered enormous destruction.
Human vitality diminished.
The laws of heaven and earth became chaotic.
The Demonic Dao relied on human vitality for cultivation.
Gradually, their strength declined.
Taking advantage of the situation, the Immortal-Buddha Child led tens of millions of elite cultivators from the Immortal and Buddhist sects to surround Evil Mountain, the final stronghold of the Demonic Dao.
They intended to destroy the Demonic Dao once and for all.
But whether it was because the Immortal-Buddha Body was still young and reckless…
or because he simply did not care about the future of the two sects…
No one knew.
That final battle between the Immortal, Demonic, and Buddhist paths nearly wiped out all three factions entirely.
Not a single true inheritance remained.
It became the greatest catastrophe in the history of the Three Realms.
Hundreds of billions of living beings died.
Seventy percent of the world's human vitality was lost.
For three hundred years, the heavens rained blood.
For a thousand years, crimson mist covered the world.
Ninety percent of cultivation techniques, treasures, and secret arts were lost forever.
Even after three hundred million years, the fear of that war still lingered in the world.