Great Dark Age

Great Dark Era, or dark age. During this time the Great Dark War occurred. After the immortal era, Martial Heaven Continent experienced another golden age, and various sects rose during this time (also Xuantian Tower, Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect). However, the dark age started when experts from another world invaded and attacked. Great Emperors defended in a bitter struggle.
The Heaven Flipping Venerate also died during this time.
== Summary ==
In NSHBA world, there is this invasion thing between the worlds when the barriers between the different worlds weaken and it gives the opportunity for invaders to attack.
Also when this weakening of the world barrier is about to happen, there is a period of some years when the Spirit of the World or Heavenly Dao release their blessings and luck and help the current generation to get powerful asap and defeat the attackers. Great Emperors are made / get power due to this thing.
And each world has its own dark age. and the enemies that attack are also at same level as the defending world usually.
==== A bit of theory mixed up ====
The Immortal World also had its Great Dark Age and the Pill Emperor was likely the selected Great Emperor of the Immortal World. Lord of Nine Stars was similarly as powerful as her.
The stuff below is explained by Yue Xiaoqian to the Barbarian solider has its details.
== Volume 4 ==
"Has the dark era passed?" asked the skeleton.
Yue Xiaoqian explains, "It passed eight epochs ago."
"Eight epochs? It's been a long time. Then what was the final result of that battle?" The skeleton sighed before continuing to ask questions.
"The Motherstar collapsed, turning into millions of motes of dust. The place we are currently in is one of those motes of dust," answered Yue Xiaoqian.
Hearing this, Long Chen felt as if he was lost in the fog. He knew what an epoch represented. That was a unit of time from the ancient era. One epoch was ten million years!
In that era, there had been a kind of tree called the Epoch Pine Tree. Every thousand years, it would grow a pine cone, and when there were ten thousand pine cones, the Epoch Pine Tree would immediately wither to death.
But ten million years later, the Epoch Pine Tree would be reborn. Its life and death was precisely twenty million years. That was how the Epoch Pine Tree's lifespan had become a simple and clear measurement of time in the ancient era.
However, as a unit of measurement, the epoch was no longer used in the current world. It was simply too long a time.
It was said that back in the ancient era, a cultivator's lifespan was practically limitless.
But in the current era, an ordinary mortal's lifespan was less than a hundred years. Only by reaching the Xiantian realm would your lifespan extend to a thousand years. But even so, that kind of longevity, in the face of an epoch, was far too short.
As for the Motherstar and the dark era, those were unfathomable terms that Long Chen had never heard before.
The skeleton's body quivered slightly, seeming extremely vexed with that result.
"The Godsealing major world, with its thousands of races and countless experts, collapsed...? And even the Motherstar was destroyed..." The skeleton's voice was full of unwillingness and endless bitterness.
== Volume 7 ==
The old man began to tell a story that was known only to a few people.
Over a hundred thousand years ago, the Martial Heaven Continent had gone through a tribulation that had changed it forever.
That time was called the dark era. That was a time where the entire Martial Heaven Continent had nearly been wiped out. This dark era has lasted for over ten thousand years.
As for the cause of the dark era, no one could say any longer. But its conclusion had been passed down through the ages.
The dark era ended with a huge calamity. Its darkness had caused the entire continent to be gravely injured.
Countless foreign experts had invaded the Martial Heaven Continent, attempting to slaughter all life. Faced with their death, the Martial Heaven Continent's experts fought back. Rivers of blood flowed through the continent, and mountains of corpses piled up.
Almost all the top experts of the various large sects were lost. But in the end, under the guidance of a Great Emperor (大帝 Sovereign, ww), they managed to beat back the invaders to their own worlds, saving the Martial Heaven Continent.
That had been a true apocalyptic battle. If they had lost, all this world's lifeforms would have been slaughtered.
At that time, every sect had fought with their lives on the line. Only a few supreme sects were able to survive. But even they took heavy losses. Their sect's treasures ended up crippled, severing their inheritance.
With the full attack of all the sects, the invaders also lost countless experts. In the end, once they were forced back to their worlds, their entrance to this world was sealed, restoring the Martial Heaven Continent's peace.
But even though peace came back to the continent, it had been gravely wounded. After a period of resting, dissenting factions appeared like the ancient races, and it was at this time that the Corrupt path suddenly showed up with great power. 
Another chaotic period of fighting occurred as all the large powers fought over resources, devouring other powers, trying to stabilize their foundations.
A few neutral powers also appeared. Mysterious existences sprang up like spring bamboo.
Although the Martial Heaven Continent eventually recovered, after that dark era, the world had changed. Another Sovereign never appeared.
=== Devil Spirit Mountain ===
As for Devil Spirit Mountain, it was one of the entrances that the invaders had gone through back during the dark era. At that time, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, Xuantian Dao Sect, and other sects all paid a bloody price.
The Heaven Splitting Divine Tablet had been broken at that time, with a portion of it lost within.
==References==
Category:Era