They were once heroes who saved the world, destroying the old Heavenly Order that devoured all life at the cost of countless sacrifices. They forged a new Heavenly Order with the purest good intentions at its core, vowing to grant the world eternal peace. But no one imagined that this flawless goodness would eventually grow into shackles binding all things.
Emotions were suppressed, desires erased, and accidents prevented. Even life and death were brought under precise control. Three hundred years turned passion and vitality into lifeless silence. Only Qing Xuanzi remembered that the wind had once blown in countless directions, and that people could feel heartbreak and live with unrestrained abandon.
A Heart-Soothing Bell, a Sword That Slays Immortals, and a fragmentary ancient scroll awakened those who had been sleeping. The enemy they must face is not a vicious demon god, but the “protection” everyone has long grown accustomed to. What they seek to reclaim is not the world’s survival, but the burning vitality and freedom that life was meant to have. Thus begins the path to slay the gods.
