Learning from the different tests set up by the ancient remnant soul, Xuan Hao understood that the fragmented continent had been flourishing with powerful cultivators everywhere before it had ended up in its current state, with the reason behind it ending up in the current state not being much different from how the old divine world had been destroyed in the past and fragmented into several smaller continents like the Ewaria Continent that he lived on alongside the Star Shattering Sect. The main difference being the fact that the world itself remained intact and only the landmass that had once been known as the divine continent at the very core of the world had been fragmented into several large continents and countless smaller islands that were now disconnected from one another.
