On the surface, this is the 21st century, with highly advanced technology. The laws of physics remain constant, history is clear and verifiable, and cultivation exists only in myths, legends, and works of literature, dismissed by the public as nonsense.
Government institutions function normally and in good order. Archaeology and history are studied using rigorous scientific methods, and all supernatural phenomena are classified as unsolved mysteries or human-made coincidences. No one investigates the truth behind them.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's population are "people without spiritual roots." They are completely unable to sense the presence of spiritual energy and spend their entire lives within a carefully constructed barrier of perception, knowing nothing of the cultivation civilization hidden beneath reality. They follow the usual routines of ordinary, secular life.
Scattered throughout the inner world are more than three thousand **"spiritual energy anomaly sites" worldwide, including ancient tombs, secret realms, forbidden lands, feng shui dead zones, and other special regions. These places are the key links between appearances and the truth.
Within these spiritual energy nodes remain traces of "spiritual energy embers" and fragments of cultivation legacies from the ancient and medieval eras, from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties through the end of the Tang. They are the final remnants of a once-glorious cultivation civilization.
The "myths," "tales of the strange," and "feng shui arts" familiar to the world were not made up from nothing. They are fragments of cultivation history, deliberately altered and reduced to a lower-dimensional interpretation. The true history has long been buried beneath layer upon layer of concealment.
About a thousand years ago, in the early Northern Song, an unknown "higher-dimensional civilization/mechanism" carried out the "Absolute Separation of Heaven and Earth 2.0" plan. It completely sealed Earth's spiritual energy cycle, destroyed all proof that cultivation civilizations had ever existed, and cut humanity off from the world of spiritual energy forever.
