In the dark age, all races are prisoners. We are not born into slavery.
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One hundred and eight thousand years ago, the war between gods and demons came to an end. The winner forged a hundred thousand prison cages, nested layer by layer, and all races were prisoners.
Cultivation is a scam, ascension is a trap. The so-called Nascent Soul Transformation is nothing more than an exquisite shackle given to the prisoner by the jailer. Those who ascended in the past generations have become nourishment, their cultivation has been drained, their memories have been cleaned, and they have turned into puppets to maintain the operation of the cage.
Humanity struggled with lies for a hundred thousand years, until a group of "madmen" began to resist.
They call themselves "Fireflies".