58 years ago, the Di Xue world was turmoil. It was an era of dog eat dog. The militias prey on the civilians, the local prefect prey on the militias, the empire prey on the prefectures, and the sect prey on them all. It was chaos and the will of heaven was disturbed. A strong cultivator, Lu Zhao appeared in these trying times and tried to calm the realm. With the aid of other like minded cultivators, he created an organisation and tried. But the various sects and empires were too strong, and he was unsuccessful.
Everything changed when Jiang Zihan joined. He was the seventh to join, hereby they 7th seat, making them the Seven Pillars of Di Xue as of then. He had lost his wife and family to the machination of the sects back then. Later they became the 11 pillars.
Lu Zhao looked at the organisation that brought peace and prosperity to the world and stopped the sects imperialism. He had a bitter sweet feeling, he remembered when Jiang Zihan just joined, filled with rage and thought of vengeance, a man cheated, he was just at the peak of Foundation Establishment. Now he's the Star-River Sword God, calm and collected, a Nascent Soul powerhouse, first under the heavens. That was 33 years ago. It felt like yesterday. The guy was truly a heaven defying genius. Now he's leaving.
"Zihan, Beihua, Guo Tianyu, Nangong Yue, Qiong Lan, Han Rouxue, Lian Yi and Li Xinen, the 8 of you are leaving now. You might be the strongest here but you never know what the upper realms may hold, you have to..." Lu Zhou started. "Old man, spare us your speech. We are not children, and we don't have time for this. The passageway is consuming a humongous amount of resources. Let's get going" Qiong Lan interrupted.
Lu Zhao smiled "Well then, I wish you all the best." Jiang Zihan nodded and bowed very low. "Old man Lu, while I live, I shall never forget you. My gratitude for what you've done for me is eternal" With that, he turned and stepped into the passage. " See you, old man" "Don't let the world fall into pieces just because we're not around " and more rang around the space as others said their goodbyes. They stepped into the passage. With a step like thunder, they moved together and disappeared. Like into the gaping jaw of the abyss, if it glows.