Rainy Three Kingdoms: The Immortal Cultivation Tale of the Three Heroes

[No System, No Transmigration, No Rebirth, Alternate World, Nontraditional Cultivation, Focused on the Ji Han Dynasty, Ensemble Cast]

(Note: The author originally wrote this on a whim to indulge a personal fantasy, jot down ideas, and practice writing. It's just for fun, so don't take it too seriously.)

Rain rules the world, and the elements of all things condense into natural magical energy. Water, Gu, wind, lightning, earth, wood, ice, fire, space, poison, soul, divination, and darkness are the thirteen primary elements. Anyone with inner strength can use any magical tool to activate them.

Since ancient times, those of royal blood have been blessed by heaven and, upon awakening, developed a pair of acquired twin pupils.

With diligent cultivation, people with this trait may become gods or demons.

The divine pupil discerns loyalty from treachery and values all living things; the demonic pupil is prone to corruption and values slaughter.

Yet for every fraction the divine will grows, the demonic will grows tenfold.

God and demon share the same roots. The higher one cultivates, the stronger one's divine power becomes, but the more easily demonic thoughts can control the mind. In the end, the bearer suffers a backlash and falls into the demonic path.

In those days, however, people generally believed that twin pupils were an auspicious sign.

That belief lasted until the chaos of the late Eastern Han, when the Four Gods died and turned into immortal elixirs, which all people sought in pursuit of eternal life.

Those with acquired twin pupils found their wicked thoughts growing ever more frequent, as they let demonic urges overtake their true nature and their greed take hold.

Countless living beings were refined into demonic beasts, then controlled by those possessed by demonic thoughts. They drained the people of their inner strength and magical energy to increase their own power, wantonly slaughtering all life in the human world.

The divine-demonic body gradually came to be seen as an ill omen, and the people turned against twin pupils.

Liu Bei, born with innate twin pupils and forced to conceal his bloodline, how will he face the Cao and Sun families, whose members possess acquired twin pupils?

In a world where magical tools serve as brushes and formations are used for both attack and defense, how will he navigate the turmoil across the Thirteen Provinces?

And is the divine path always good? Must the demonic path always be evil?