[Spiritual Qi Revival] [System] [Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland]
Spiritual qi suddenly resurged, ushering in a world-changing era.
Some celebrated in a frenzy, believing the path to immortality had opened and that everyone could cultivate, live forever, and transcend the mortal world;
others were terrified and despairing, declaring spiritual qi a cataclysm that ordinary bodies could never withstand.
Those who feared it shut their doors and windows, stockpiled supplies, and huddled in their tiny homes, hoping to scrape by in safety;
the bold rashly drew in spiritual qi and forced themselves to cultivate, hoping to gain an early lead on the path to immortality.
But reality was far crueler than the rumors.
Those who blindly absorbed spiritual qi began to mutate. Their minds crumbled, and they became strange monsters with no reason and immense strength: the ghoul-men.
Even those who never tried to cultivate could not escape the fate of mutation. Countless ordinary people were transformed simply by living on land where spiritual qi had spread.
Ghoul-men roamed everywhere, cities fell, and order collapsed.
As disaster struck, the Dragon Kingdom built fortified safe zones at astonishing speed, barely holding back the catastrophe and preserving humanity's last sanctuary.
When spiritual qi was no longer a chance at immortality, but an apocalyptic calamity consuming civilization;
when the prosperous world became a hunting ground for mutated monsters, the old era came to a definitive end.
This desperate world, overrun by spiritual qi and monsters,
is the Spirit Calamity Era, a world that belongs to humanity.
