Chapter 5 - The Beast Race

Thousands of years passed since Heaven released the immortal qi into the world.

Heaven had gone back to the continent and entered observation mode ever since.

By now, there are countless immortals in the world, and many more still ascending.

As Heaven watches more and more immortal ascending, it would be bad if there are too many immortals. There will be no balance.

Screech!

While Heaven was wondering, a bird's cry echoed throughout the continent.

Heaven shifted his consciousness toward a volcanic mountain in the southern region of the continent.

A huge firebird was flying, circling the volcanic mountain, its home.

While Heaven was looking at the firebird, something came to his mind.

He instantly spread his consciousness to every realms.

Heaven was sensing the creatures in every realm. The low-intelligent creatures.

They were living the life of being hunted by humans. It was quite miserable. Living in fear of being hunted the humans.

Heaven hadn't considered giving them the ability to absorb qi previously. He never thought about it.

Heaven started to think about it before finally deciding to let those creatures have the ability to absorb qi.

The world's law shudders as Heaven willed for the low-intelligent creatures of all realms to have the ability to absorb qi unconsciously until they developed their intelligence.

After that, Heaven went back to observe the world. This time focusing more on these creatures.

Years passed, and the creatures that used to be hunted and butchered by the humans had now gained self-awareness and fought back. They even started to cultivate qi. Especially after they form their Core. Their intelligence had risen.

More and more creatures started to gain self-awareness and think like normal humans as more time passed.

After they reached a certain amount, they formed a beast tide that swept through the human's territory. Devastating the human civilization and conquering some of the lands.

Eventually, in some of the realms, they reached the point where they overwhelm the humans and conquered almost ninety percent of the land in said realms. But they still couldn't completely dominate the humans and unintentionally reached a balance.

More time passed as the balance was kept.

The beast settled in some of the lands they conquered and carved their territory. While the humans stayed in their small territory. Returning peace to some of the realms.

As time passed, humans started to multiply. Eventually, they reached the point where their territory was too crowded.

After accumulating enough strength, humans started to fight back for territory.

After a grueling hundred years of war, the humans managed to take back at least forty percent of the land in some of the realms. And then a pact was made.

Even though almost every realm made the pact, the content of the pact varied. But there's one condition that exists in every pact made, no more war that could threaten the extinction of a species was allowed.

Meanwhile, Heaven was watching everything that happened and he sealed the pact by sending Heaven's Vow.

One that if violated will be struck by Heaven's Lightning to death.

After years of peace and communicating with the beast, humans discovered that there were two types of beasts. Mainly in the difference between their temperament.

The ones who formed the beast tide were called Demonic Beast since they had a tendency for violence and have a ferocious aura around them.

While the other ones were called Spirit Beast as they tend to have a gentle disposition and won't necessarily attack humans as long as the humans don't attack and trespass on their territories.

Time passed in a flash.

Heaven had been watching the world's movement without disrupting the balance that was established between the beast and human.

Some of the beasts had even obtained the ability to morph into a human form even though there were still some of their original characteristics carried to their human form.

By now, there have been numerous beasts, humanoid beasts and humans alike having breakthroughs to the immortal stage. Creating factions in every realm.

At the same time, as immortals abounded, they were slowly mapping out every realm in the world.

Then they discovered that immortal qi exists in every corner of the Three Thousand Realms, while there were none in the Endless Plane.

Even if there were, only a few wisps of immortal qi could exist. Else they risk the destruction of a realm in the Endless Plane.

Hence they began to call the Endless Plane the Mortal Realms, and the Three Thousand Realms as the Immortal Realms.

There's even a barrier between the two. Separating both worlds.

Since Heaven had always been watching, he knows what they had done, and Heaven silently agrees with them.

Heaven soon willed the world's law to add the name of realms as such, with an addition.

The world trembles for a second and all living beings had the same knowledge entering their mind.

The Mortal Realms, the Immortal Realms, and...

The God Realm.

For the mortals, the Immortal Realm was out of their reach, much less the God Realm. The mortals didn't bother to think too much about them.

But for the immortals...

It was chaos.

There was an uproar happening in every immortal realm.

Even though there were still none who reaches the peak of the immortal stage, the immortals were still wondering about the next stage.

And this piece of knowledge from Heaven answered their question.

Sometimes, having a clear purpose can also motivate people to do their best in whatever they were doing.

Afterward, as the Immortal Realms were boiling in excitement, immortals in every realm strived to cultivate quickly to the peak of the immortal stage.

And this is what truly marked the era as the Era of Immortals.