The Ruins of Shan Hai: The Origin of the Apocalypse

For millions of years, humanity has lived in a world where spiritual energy has run dry and the divine way has faded, in the dying remnant of an age when magic no longer works. We thought technology was the ultimate truth and all myths were nonsense, never realizing that... The Classic of Mountains and Seas was never a collection of strange tales. It was a historical record of an ancient world sealed away completely. When the heavenly locks of Guixu shattered, rifts erupted across every ley line on Earth. Ancient beasts from the mountains and seas, asleep for countless ages, returned to the human world. The modern world, where spiritual energy had grown thin and lifeless, suddenly experienced a great resurgence. And with it, all of human civilization collapsed. Electricity decayed, machines failed, firearms stopped working, and cities became primeval mountains and rivers. The rampaging tainted energy of the mountains and seas overwhelmed the world. Ordinary people mutated into mindless savages, and the laws of nature were rewritten. The technological order of the old era came crashing to an end, and the law of the jungle from the ancient wilderness returned to the land. Only he, versed in ancient mountain-and-sea script and familiar with the lineage of its creatures, awakened the unique fate-granted ability 【Heaven-Peering Through Mountains and Seas】. He could read runes, discern omens of calamity, and see through the innate weaknesses of strange beasts. He could use the written lineage to commune with ley lines and form spiritual contracts to tame wild beasts. He did not seek to defy heaven through slaughter. He would make a place for himself in the apocalypse with nothing but countless ancient tomes. Bai Ze could identify good fortune and avoid disaster, Chenghuang could stride across mountains and rivers, and the survivors gathered around a faint spark of hope. On one side were ancient fiends awakened to seek revenge, the remnants of fallen gods, and endless monstrous evils; On the other were modern humans, on the brink of extinction, torn apart by infighting, with their faith in ruins. The human order of technology and the divine order of the primeval wilderness: two civilizations, two laws of heaven, locked in a struggle for survival with no chance of reconciliation. From scraping by in the ruins of the cities, to traversing ancient mountains and rivers, and finally venturing deep into the forbidden lands of Guixu.