The Stronghold: Gathering the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals and Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends

In the final years of the Great Qian dynasty, chaos engulfed the land. Every province suffered three years of drought, leaving thousands of miles barren. People ate their own children to survive, and corpses of the starved littered the roads. The imperial court knew only how to indulge itself, local officials squeezed the people with exorbitant taxes, warlords carved out territories for themselves, and foreign enemies launched repeated invasions. In this world, a person was worth less than a dog.

If this world would not let us live, then we would carve out a path to survival ourselves.

Where twelve lonely souls were laid to rest, a band of 108 heroes came together. They sought neither noble titles nor high office, only a world with fewer partings.