Ten thousand years ago, the Nine Heavens shattered, and chaotic energy swept across the stars.
The three ancient High Gods, Weidian, sought a glimpse of the eternal Dao and the power of gods and demons. They brazenly tore up the thousand-year covenant between Heaven and Earth, using divine blood to forge the rebellious "Demon Cultivator Clan."
That day, war engulfed the heavenly realm, burning the clouds. Divine bones fell like shooting stars, rivers in the mortal realm filled with drifting boats, and living beings suffered terribly. Half the ancient gods perished beneath the slaughterer's blade. Just as the Three Realms were about to sink into eternal darkness, the ancient god who held up the heavens used his divine essence as chains and the cores of stars as locks to finally suppress Weidian at the bottom of the Abyss of Nine Hells. He also left behind an ancient mystic talisman to seal Weidian's spirit and the divine beast Lu Wu to guard his soul, swearing that Weidian would "never be reborn."
But in the wake of the calamity, the Immortal Realm had already been gravely weakened. To keep the mortal realm in check and restore their strength, the immortals taught the Xia Dynasty's Xuanyuan clan, rulers of the human world, the forbidden secrets of "Heaven and Earth Control Arts" and "Purple Star Mysticism." Little did they know that this scheme to "stabilize the Three Realms with the power of mortals" had already driven a wedge into the Immortal Realm.
Several mighty beings had witnessed the bloody slaughter during the unification of the Nine Heavens. They turned against Lingxiao, abandoning the immortal realm for the mortal world.
Their arrival left the Xia Dynasty's rule teetering on the brink. War among the feudal lords spread across the Nine Provinces, and the boundary between the immortal and mortal realms grew ever blurrier. Were these renegade immortals trying to defy Heaven and change their fate, or had Weidian's seal already begun to weaken...
