The Sacred Clan rules the cosmos and commands many vassal races. Three thousand years ago, coveting the source of power in the realm inhabited by humanity, the Sacred Clan sent its warlike Silver-Eyed Clan to invade. Humanity rose up in resistance, but was defeated. For the next three thousand years, humans were enslaved by the Silver-Eyed Clan and stripped of the arts of cultivation, scraping by like specks of dust.