Baili An finally realized, he remembered that in the history of human countries' war records, five hundred years ago, humans and the oceanic overlord Merfolk had formed an alliance. However, due to a chaotic storm, believing that the allied Merfolk cultivators disappeared mysteriously amid the ocean storm, thirty million human cultivators vanished.
Since then, the righteous path in the Mortal World declined, giving rise to the Demon Path, throwing the Tianyao Continent into a thousand years of darkness deprived of freedom.
Though the Three Sects of the Heavenly Dao later rose, greatly hindering the Demon Path's influence, restoring the world to a prosperous era of peace and order.
