The Daoist heart embraces heaven and earth; the demon root destroys all living things. Search every land for a way to save the world, beginning at the peak of Yun Mountain in the east.
The Daoist heart is hard to find, appearing once in a thousand years. The demon root never dies, returning through endless cycles. One demon, one Daoist, bound together for eternity.
After King Zhou burned himself to death at the Deer Terrace, his soul escaped and became a demonic thought. At midnight, when yin energy was at its strongest and dark clouds covered the moon, it successfully reincarnated to continue its evildoing. Anyone possessed by this demonic thought became a bearer of the demon root.
To stop King Zhou’s demonic thought from continuing to plague the mortal world, the Daoist master Jiang Ziya used the blood from his own heart meridian to forge a Daoist heart as he reached the end of his life, giving up his immortal status forever to become mortal.
From then on, whenever a demon root appeared in the world and wreaked havoc, someone bearing a Daoist heart would rise to oppose it. For thousands of years, the demon and the Daoist fought without end. Until three thousand years later…
