To ensure their own descendants could enjoy eternal glory and riches,
they began to unscrupulously exploit every member of the Human Race.
They employed all manner of schemes to bewitch the hearts of the people, to blur the lines between right and wrong,
and to spread all sorts of vile ideologies like a poisonous fog throughout the mortal realm.
Under the corrosion of this Dark Power,
the Human Race gradually lost its way. Many abandoned the path of cultivation,
becoming lost in the illusory temptations of the mortal world.
Their backbones were torn out, their spirit of resistance ground into dust.
They were like soulless, walking corpses, barely surviving in the darkness.
However, what those Deities failed to understand was that,
while some among the Human Race chose to bend the knee,
there were others who stood proud and unyielding, like defiant pines that would never bow.
Just like the Great Sage Equal to Heaven of old, who wreaked havoc in the Celestial Palace,
