A Night Before Dawn: The Prequel

For endless ages, humanity was weak and at the mercy of other races. Then, one day, a young man walked out of a small town, singing as he went, with the Great Dao stretching before him. At the summit of a snowy mountain, he called upon the Heavenly Dao and created the path of cultivation. From that day on, gamblers sought the Dao from Heaven and founded the Daoist sect; the Buddha attained enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree and established Buddhism; the light roamed the wastelands and became the Demon Sect; and the Master, free and unbound, founded an academy. Across the cosmos, all races revered humanity above all others. But the true disaster had only just begun…