For tens of thousands of years, the Digital World and the human world had existed apart from one another, bonded only by an undetected network which kept the two worlds from crashing together or drifting apart. Although we depended on each other for existance, neither of us knew of the other's presence until the network sparked a connection in 1946 after ENIAC's completion. The connection didn't last, for man's technological achievements weren't quite as advanced as they needed to be, but it was enough to change the Digital World forever. It was enough to send him to us.

He was a Tamer. The first Tamer. He partnered with a wild Digimon, Coredramon, and formed and unstoppable team using the force of the Digisoul. At first, he and his Digimon brought prosperity to our world, traveling through our many cities, bringing wealth where there was poverty, order where there was chaos, faith where there was disbelief, and peace where there was war. But it didn't last. As Coredramon grew, so did the strength of his Tamer's Digisoul, until they attained a god-like power never before seen in our world: Burst Mode. With the power of the cosmos at their disposal, we thought this Tamer and his Digimon would do even greater things, until that power became too much to bear and it corrupted their souls.

Ruin Mode, we called it. No longer obeying his Tamer's commands, Slayerdramon went on a rampage, burning our cities to the ground and chasing the Digimon from their homes. The Digital World was ablaze, and it was my fault for letting this threat in. As governor of the four Digital Continents, I, Huanlongmon, rose up into the skies and went to meet Slayerdramon Ruin Mode in battle. Using the power of electricity, I, too entered Burst Mode, and fought what might be the greatest battle since the beginning of the Digital World. Slayerdramon, blinded by his rage, sacrificed reason for power, and that is how I managed to defeat him. But it did not come without a cost. The great battle shook the Digital World, causing the four continents to crash together, and Mt. Infinity sprang up from the collision site, marking the burial ground of Slayerdramon and myself.

Before my death, I divided my power into the four Holy Beasts--Xuanwumon, Qinglongmon, Zhuqiaomon, and Baihumon--so that they might guard their own respective provinces of the Digital Continent and help the inhabitants of our world rebuild. They were the ones who banished the Legendary Tamer, sending him back to his own world, and put up a Firewall to keep anyone else from crossing the network and causing such chaos. However, the Firewall has weakened since then. The human world, in the midst of the Internet Age, has once again brought their kind to us, and now it is only a matter of time before the disaster I tried so hard to prevent is re-inacted, perhaps destroying our world for good this time.