Heretics Confer Godhood

There are only three thousand gods and demons in the world, but countless lesser spirits serve beneath them. A million years of reaching for the heavens and mastering the earth will bring dazzling brilliance to future generations. In troubled times, monsters and villains run rampant; cut away foolish love, cut away talent and passion. In this age of prosperity, heroes and conquerors are sure to emerge. If only life were not so full of regrets...

Amid the great struggle that followed the age of reaching the heavens and mastering the earth, there are the righteous, the folk practitioners who follow their own unorthodox paths, and the heretical sects. To cultivate immortality, they have stepped into the mortal world for real. Yet those who truly see the situation clearly can only search for a sliver of hope by any means necessary, even as they watch themselves swept to the eye of the storm by the tide of the times...