His parents had apparently been killed by some so called devil worshippers of the human race leaving only him to take care of his one year old brother.
At the same time , simultaneous attacks were carried out all over the world by the devil cult weakening many sects and plunging the world into dispare.
Not only were sect disciples killed but also sect master , traders ,martial academies and even the growing martial realm.
A decision by the powerful sects was made closings their doors for a period of twenty years.
When the period wore off , an amazing scene happened, regardless of sect affiliation, race,cultivation path or realm, all cultivators on the day that marked the 20th year of the sects seclusion run amok killing every demon they came into contact with, whether young or old, strong or weak , guilty or innocent, no mercy was shown as during this time, no demon ever showed them mercy.
People fought like crazy to the extent that it scared even the demons, such as a crazy man who intentionally got himself captured and allowed himself to be humiliated just for this day when he started his tribulation in the middle of the slave camp killing many fellow humans but more demons.
The so called devil cultivators were worse than what one might have expected, they represented what a human with no limits is truly capable of, from using plagues by inflecting prisoners then releasing them to using torture on pregnant women.
They went so low that the demons specifically hunted down these demonic cultivators that surprisingly didn't join their cause . to make things worse than they already were , the slaughter unleashed by the demonic cultivators seemed to have sparked some feral instinct in all the races removing any moral limiters they still had.
And for almost a full hundred years , the weeping of the devils and demons could be heard all over the lower realm.
Just as the war seemed to be coming to an end, information on how to refine demons for power spread throughout the world and the once hunter became the hunted.
A quick retreat was called as demons ran back to their worlds and isolated themselves . some cornered ones went as far as carrying out large-scale blood sacrifices only to learn that the humans already carried out one, not to gain power but to simply prevent the descent of any immortal.
The war ended with a landslide victory for the myriad races ,yet the damages were still felt.
Still all races recognized the contribution of the human race and their leader who ruthlessly banded all of them together ,the human emperor , leader of the fading star sect and scourge of demons Bai zhanlong. Two hundred years after the war , several old timers came together and ascended jointly.
The news they sent back prompted another alliance of all major sects and factions of the lower realm to created a better foothold as the upper world seemed to be ruled by the celestials, demons, beasts and the spirit races.
Through schemes that would make Lucifer's rebellion look like a joke, a small faction few paid attention to was born, it was called the heavenly alliance.
It's leader seemed to be a young man of no remarkable cultivation aptitude yet within a span of no less than five thousand years, the boy was learnt to have created an unprecedented dao , the sovereign dao that seemed to be comparable to the celestial dao.
In ten thousand years ,a faction capable of going toe to toe with the major factions was born and Bai zhanlong was named immortal emperor as all his followers were mostly immortal cultivators.
As the immortal emperor thought through all he had gone through to get here, he resolved himself once more to clean up the loose ends aka the rebels he hadn't touched yet.