The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 166 The mortal realm stagnated for eighty years, while immortals sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

The winds and clouds shifted, the sky changed color, and a purple aura swept across the east, filling half the sky.

This means someone has become an immortal. Although there are many immortals in the human world, the appearance of one more immortal will attract everyone's attention.

But just as the conditions for achieving immortality began, the strange phenomenon vanished without a trace in the next instant.

Did it fail?

Indeed, there are witnesses who have testified that the True Immortal failed before, but this time it was too hasty and ended in the blink of an eye, without causing any stir.

Divine senses swept across the scene, trying to find out the truth, but in the end, they all came up empty-handed. Apart from the lingering traces of immortal energy, there was nothing else left.

But the matter was eventually dropped, and the immortals were more concerned with refining the waters of the four seas to bring peace to the four seas.

One hundred and fifty years ago, the true immortals of the three races had already agreed to work together to solve the problem of this vast ocean.

But who could have imagined the vastness of the four seas and the abundance of the seawater, the magical essence contained within them far exceeding their imagination? That is why, even now, the twenty-six True Immortals from the three races working together have not been able to completely refine the seawater of the four seas.

Moreover, after refining the seawater of the four seas for so many years, people suddenly realized that the spiritual energy in the world was not right.

The curse spread silently across the land, and as the immortals dissolved the curse's aura in the four seas, it slowly flowed into the earth.

Because the water vapor is cyclical, and the curse became less severe after they were neutralized, it lost much of its original harm. However, the remaining minor harm was a great danger to ordinary people.

In the first ten years after the curse appeared in the air, 300,000 people died, along with 400,000 demons and 250,000 barbarians. At first, people thought it was a plague or acute illness, and although they took it seriously, they didn't pay too much attention to it.

Over the next ten years, this acute illness increased rather than decreased, and people discovered that it was not only affecting humans, but also wild animals and livestock, resulting in the deaths of over a million people across the three races.

Moreover, this disease accumulates in the body of practitioners, little by little, until practitioners are also affected by this acute illness and eventually die.

Only then did the practitioners belatedly realize the situation and join the fight to resolve this acute illness.

Ten years later, people discovered that this acute illness had appeared in the twentieth year after the seawater of the four seas was refined by the true immortals.

At that time, it was not related to this major event. However, as time went on, the symptoms of this acute illness on the cultivators became more and more like the symptoms that appeared when the cultivators entered the Four Seas in the past. Only then did people realize that this matter was related to the refinement of the seawater of the Four Seas.

So the matter was brought before the True Immortals of the Three Clans, and by this time, more than fifty years had passed since the True Immortals refined the seawater of the Four Seas.

The curse has seeped into the world, and it is difficult to reverse.

The death toll across the three races reached five million, and over one hundred million people suffered from sudden illnesses.

After understanding the reason, the immortals immediately stopped refining the seawater of the four seas, and then each used their great magic to begin to collect the curse aura on the earth.

However, the cursed aura had nowhere to go after being recovered; it couldn't simply dissolve back into the seawater.

Then someone came up with a solution—to send these cursed auras into other continents and bury and seal them in the ley lines of those continents.

The immortals were all decisive individuals, and they immediately decided on this plan. They then sent these curses to Beiju Luzhou, a place that receives partial sunlight and is covered in ice and snow all year round. It is unlikely that many living beings will come to live there in the future, so this place is the first choice.

After confirming the location, the immortals unleashed their power, suppressing the curse's aura beneath Beiju Luzhou.

However, it is quite difficult to dispel the curse aura between heaven and earth; extracting it from the air is much more difficult than directly and violently dispelling it from the seawater.

But since the immortals were determined to accomplish something, they naturally wouldn't return empty-handed.

It took them a full fifty years, and during that time, not only they acted, but other primordial spirits also assisted from the side, consuming a lot of manpower and resources, and causing all kinds of cultivation methods in the human world to stagnate, before they finally collected the curse aura and suppressed it under Beiju Luzhou.

This went on for a hundred years, and afterwards people dared not mention the slogan of "expanding the four seas, crossing the oceans, and exploring new continents" anymore.

The three races also began to recuperate, after all, the curse had invaded the bodies of many beings. Although it was resolved with the help of the immortals and primordial spirits, the damage remained.

After that, the three clans vigorously developed the alchemy industry, and many cultivation methods also shifted to strengthening the foundation and nourishing the vital energy.

All living beings suffer from illness, and the earth has become unusually quiet. Apart from minor frictions in a few areas, other areas are peaceful and harmonious. In border areas, the three races have even begun long-lost cooperation and integration.

Eighty years passed in this period of recuperation and rebuilding, and the three races gradually recovered. However, because of these eighty years of communication, something unexpected happened...

Yes, they started fighting again.

Their deep-seated distrust ultimately led them to give in.

In fact, this is also a concentrated eruption of the contradictions and clashes that have been hidden beneath decades of harmony.

Even a family can have conflicts, let alone three races with very different customs, appearances, and languages.

"Racial wars are impossible to stop," said Qing Ding, the supreme ruler of the demon race.

Although war was imminent, the eighty years of tolerance had not prevented the emergence of people who were truly willing to accept other races (demons and barbarians), so some civilian exchanges were still taking place.

While the civilization in the cave stagnated, the development of the "Upper Caveman" tribe was in full swing.

Fire Boy became a True Immortal first, then was moved out of the world within the pot by Ancestor Luo. Next came Deer, following closely behind his father, then Stream, and then Iron Head...

In the world within the pot, they were three or four days apart, but on the primordial land, the time difference was not much.

Thus, an extremely magical scene appeared in the sky above Luoxiang.

Colorful clouds gather in the wind, bringing forth a multitude of life-giving forces. They sweep across the top of Mount Luo, each bearing a beautiful and ethereal appearance.

Fire Boy eventually became a true immortal with thirty-six kinds of immortal techniques and refined thirty-six strands of immortal energy.

Lu has forty-eight kinds of immortal techniques, Xi has twenty-four kinds of immortal techniques, and Tie Tou has fifty-one kinds of immortal techniques.

On this very first day, four true immortals were born.

"Chieftain, I did it! I did it!" Fire Boy was the most excited, shouting and yelling nonstop.

Seeing his excited state, Luo Zu couldn't stand it anymore, so he raised his hand to block out his noise.

With these four role models, three more of the twenty-one cultivators who had entered the world within the gourd attained the status of True Immortal within the next three days.

They are Erwa, Xiao, and E.

Thus, there are seven true immortals guarding the tribe.

This number may not be comparable to those of the lich tribes, but the human race has only been on this land for a hundred years.

The next few days were spent with experienced people mentoring newcomers, and Luo Zu led them to familiarize themselves with the various techniques of the True Immortal realm.

During the period of teaching them, which lasted only ten days to half a month, Tang from the distant Hot Witch tribe also became an immortal.

(End of this chapter)