In the Dark Age, all races are prisoners. We were not born to be slaves.
One hundred and eight thousand years ago, the war between gods and demons ended. The victors forged one hundred thousand cages, nested within one another, imprisoning every race.
Cultivation is a lie. Ascension is a trap. Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation are nothing but ornate shackles bestowed on prisoners by their jailers. Every cultivator who ascended became feedstock: their cultivation drained, their memories erased, until they were reduced to puppets that kept the cages running.
Humanity struggled against these lies for a hundred thousand years, until a group of “madmen” began to fight back.
They called themselves “Fireflies.”
