Since the ancient era, humans, demons, beasts, fiends, and countless other creatures have walked heaven and earth, proved their dao, and ascended to higher planes to seek and unravel the mysteries of heaven and earth. Every being seeks to follow in their footsteps and achieve higher goals.
In one such region of War God country, there's a youth who holds similar aspirations but as luck would have it, he was unable to progress any further in his cultivation due to a heart demon. Ever since his birth, he would dream of a red mountain in a forest.
At first, it was not a problem, he merely traveled around in the forest and enjoy the scenery. He would come across various beasts, insects, and other creatures that went about minding their own business. He was terrified at first but he noticed that these creatures did not mind his presence at all and never attacked him.
Every night he would wander around the forest and observe these beasts until one day he decided to visit the mountain. The mountain seemed very mysterious to him. He could not help but give in to his curiosity.
He realized that once he started to move toward the mountain with the goal to visit, the scenery around him changed. It felt like all that was left was him and the mountain. His intuition told him that he could become stronger just by reaching the mountain and he then started his journey to the mountain without any delay.
He began crossing the forest but as soon as he started, he realized that the surrounding beasts began to take notice of him. It would not be easy to reach the mountain but he had already begun his journey. He did not want to stop now, and thus Shan Hong began to carve his cultivation path.
Shan Hong lived in the Shan family. This was an ancient family who had survived countless years of calamities and war to this day. He was lucky to be born into the Shan family. There are countless powers in their realm called the Elements realm.
The Shan family holds considerable power in the War God country of the Elements realm.
It is said that whenever a heaven's favorite is born, the essence qi in the surroundings resonates with them upon their birth.
When Shan Hong was born, the earth qi in the Shan family's territory rumbled and caused an earthquake while the sky turned pitch black and divine eyes formed in the sky where one eye represented the sun while the other the moon.
The eyes looked down upon the Shan family's territory which even awakened the ancestors. The Shan family higher-ups were extremely happy and were rejoiced to gain one more heaven's favorite.
But their happiness did not last long when they found that Shan Hong was an introvert and was unable to express himself properly.
Hence, their interest declined, and Shan Hong continued to live peacefully until the day his parents decided to ascend to the higher plane.