Immortality Begins at Sanxiao Temple

Ever since Pangu swung his Heaven-Opening Axe and split apart primordial chaos, separating the clear from the turbid and bringing heaven and earth into being, the primeval world has passed through countless upheavals. The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans vied for supremacy; the conflict between the Dao and the Demonic Path engulfed the cosmos; Luohou was defeated and Hongjun merged with the Dao. Hongjun preached at the Zixiao Palace, and the Six Saints took their places. The war between the Wu and Yaoguang tribes toppled Mount Buzhou and sent the Celestial River cascading down. Nuwa mended the heavens and created humanity. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors established order, and humanity gradually became the protagonist of heaven and earth. Then came the Investiture of the Gods, as the Chan and Jie sects clashed, the Zhou overthrew the Shang, and immortals and gods were entered onto the divine register, with the Heavenly Court ruling the Three Realms.

After the Investiture of the Gods, spiritual energy inexplicably dried up, and immortals and Buddhas vanished from the world. Human dynasties rose and fell, technology flourished, and myths became mere legends. But the Heavenly Dao turns in endless cycles, and the final tribulation is approaching. Great powers from the primeval world are returning to put their plans into motion, recreating the Great Dao amid the mortal world of the degenerate age. In modern cities, cultivators hide among ordinary people, strange beasts lurk in the mountains and seas, and a new era of tribulation is quietly taking shape...