After experiencing the seventy or so years of chaos caused a few words from the big shots of the upper world many thought that there'd be some peace for a time as many inheritances that stretched eras,yet that turned out to be wishful thinking.
A fiend had apeared, covered up all in black he challenged any weapon master he could find.
At first people thought him a swordsman as he first challenged swordsmen using swords yet he also challenged sabermasters using sabers.
As though to make a point, he also challenged masters of other weapon types be it spear masters, archers, whips or even daggers.
He challenged the known and unknown masters , his challenges became so famous that it brought fame to those challenged as he was known to challenge only those who'd reached the realm of master in their weapons.
What made such an individual special was that he'd defeated all his opponents even those old seniors.
This meant that he had a higher mastery of said weapon than the master challenged.
After thousands of battles undefeated in combat , the title of hundred arms was given to honor such a man.
And as expected he started a new trend that forced many old timers to hide away in seclusion as no matter how many were defeated more apeared besides they were still digesting their gains from their fight with the hundred arms saint .
As more and more challenges were issued , their was a boost in the number of armed experts and many broke through their bottlenecks in dao.
It was at the peak of such an era that the hundred arms saint announced going into seclusion.
All together this period took about two hundred and fifty years. It was just as the hype of challenges settled down that another scoundrel apeared out of nowhere, this was a martial artist that had on only pants, a loose fitted shirt and a mask.
This man was simply more eccentric than the hundred arms saint as he challenged everyone he met , whether young or old , master or novice. Human or beast , race didn't matter, age didn't matter, just a certain level of mastery in one's field ,be it formations, sword dao , rune dao saber it didn't matter, he handled it all with his fists.
What truly dumbfounded them was the fact that he even challenged mortals and restricted his power to theirs.
At first many laughed at him yet when they heard how much stronger he'd become after retuning to the mortal world, they all started looking into it and some simply risked it all and descended to the mortal realm.
As people, clans and sects saw the benefits, they made it a habit for their young ones to experience the mortal world at least once in their lives.
Yet when it was discovered that some resources needed by upper world cultivators were in the lower worlds greed started to fill some only to be shot down by the celestial and immortal emperors.
As the cause for such things some called him a fiend, martial fiend as for those who respected him they named him battle sage.