In ancient times, Gonggong smashed Mount Buzhou, breaking the pillar of heaven and tilting the world.
By order of the Celestial Emperor, Cang Xuan became the guardian of Mount Kunlun, keeping watch for five thousand years.
He witnessed the fall of the gods, the collapse of the immortal realm, and the rise and fall of the mortal world.
He guarded mountains that moved, ley lines that breathed, a Jade Pool that flowed backward, and the shattered bones of Mount Buzhou that split the sky.
Demons invaded ten thousand times, and ten thousand times he turned mountains into weapons, snow into blades, and heaven and earth into a formation.
No one remembered him. No one knew he was there.
In the five-thousandth year, the great axis of the ley lines was about to shatter, and a primordial evil god was about to emerge.
Cang Xuan burned away five thousand years of cultivation and transformed himself into a mountain, holding the foundations of the Three Realms in place.
At last, he sat atop Kunlun and wrote a single line:
Kunlun is safe. Now, I too can rest.
