Pangu created the heavens and the earth, and Nüwa shaped humanity from clay.
Living between heaven and earth, people absorbed the boundless spiritual energy around them, cultivating their powers until they ascended to immortality.
The celestial capital and mortal world were filled with beauty and harmony.
But good times never last.
If immortals and mortals are unkind, then heaven and earth are unkind;
if heaven and earth are unkind, then immortals and mortals perish.
The cycle repeated, without exception.
The first time,
the second time,
…
Until the tenth time, when hope bloomed in the depths of despair and the survival of immortals and mortals was no longer part of an endless cycle.
Legend tells of an immortal who comprehended the workings of heaven and earth and transcended the world of mortals and immortals. At the brink of life and death, he shielded the more than one hundred immortals and mortals still alive, saving them from extinction.
But everyone who survived had their past erased. They forgot everything that came before, becoming no different from the new beings born into the world alongside them.
No one knew that across all eternity, an immortal had once saved mortals and immortals from extinction.
Only one person remembered: Lin Kongjian.
He was trapped in the aftermath of that catastrophe. The immortal who had saved all living beings was gone, and the loss became a nightmare he could never escape. He woke from it again and again, unable to forget, his grief so deep he could hardly breathe.
Seeing him so shattered, those around him could only sigh. Yet if they held their breath and listened closely, they could hear Lin Kongjian whisper:
Are you still there?
