The world once possessed a glorious civilization and powerful systems of cultivation, whether immortal arts, magic, or something else. But it suffered a cataclysm that swept across heaven and earth, such as an ancient war between gods and demons, a forbidden experiment gone awry, the arrival of an evil god from beyond the heavens, or the collapse of the laws of nature. The disaster filled the world with a violent energy known as “Nether Haze.” Traditional cultivation was all but wiped out, and directly absorbing the energy of heaven and earth drove people mad, warped them, and turned them into mindless “mutants.”
