In the mid-21st century, as information technology and physical sciences reached their limits, humanity's experiments into the nature of consciousness led to the first discovery of a source of cosmic energy that could be controlled by thought: "psionic energy."
But the ensuing "Psionic War" revealed its terrifying nature: attacks on consciousness were far deadlier than physical destruction. To end the chaos, the emerging Shenhui Alliance introduced the "Psionic Core" System and the "Heavenly Dao Network." In exchange for filtering psionic contamination and ensuring public safety, they imposed absolute order and cemented the social hierarchy.
With its monopoly on psionic energy, Shenhui built a floating city for the elite and divided the world into "Shenhui," the "Mortal Realm," and the abandoned "Sunken Abyss." By the early 22nd century, its psionic technology could locally alter the laws of physics, rendering all traditional material weapons obsolete.
But they also discovered that beyond psionic energy lay something even more fundamental: "Primordial Qi," a divine cosmic law that could neither be created nor destroyed. Whoever mastered it would define the course of the next age. And the story begins with a young man in the Sunken Abyss who accidentally comes into contact with this power.
