Cultivating immortality is an act of defying heaven and disrupting order. And order, of course, includes the balance between a cultivator's mind and body.
The price is that your sanity evaporates and your body falls apart. Who knows what unspeakable thing you might become in the end?
When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. The truth always drives people mad, so seeing the world as it truly is may not be a good thing.
That is why there are so many ancient secret realms within a certain matriarchal sect that once worshipped the "Mother Goddess." They seal away all manner of inexplicable entities.
Ever since the day the exalted one departed, the balance of this world began to collapse. Everything is crumbling and rotting...
In this fading age, a young man set out on the path of immortal cultivation to avenge his master.
The wheels of fate have begun to turn once more...