At the dawn of creation, Yuancheng was the one and only Primordial God in the world.
The iron laws of Heaven's Dao hung over the divine soul, commanding the gods to abandon the seven emotions and six desires, and coldly watch the mortal world live and die. They could not let mortals sway them or interfere with the cycle of reincarnation.
Yet he gave rise to a primal sin: compassion.
Seeing the people of the world plunged into calamity and war, he broke the laws to grant mercy, sending rain to dispel disaster and using his divine body to protect countless living beings.
The people enjoyed his blessings, but their greed grew alongside them, and the order of cause and effect in the world teetered on the brink of collapse.
Jinjue was an execution god forged from divine power that Yuancheng had personally stripped away.
He wielded the Divine Blade of Judgment and bore the heavy duty of keeping the gods in line. He was supposed to drag the boundary-crossing Primordial God to the execution platform and subject him to Heaven's punishment.
On one side were the inescapable laws of Heaven. On the other was the god he loved, the one who had created him.
When he raised the execution blade, he ultimately could not bring himself to send the one he loved to eternal ruin.
Divine punishment descended, and karmic fire devoured his bones.
He sacrificed half his divine source to share all the suffering in the world with Yuancheng.
On the cliff top, through the long, silent night, with guilt weighing on them, their love finally dared to break through layer upon layer of divinity and reveal itself to each other.
Mortals enjoyed an age of peace and prosperity, but the incense offerings slowly dwindled.
The years washed over millennia. Lamps in countless homes shone bright year after year, and people had long forgotten that two gods had once been buried deep in time, along with their divine bones and love.
"I pity all living beings in this world, but the world has never pitied me."
"If all living beings won't pity you, then I will."
Theme: When compassion becomes a god's primal sin, when sacrifice is buried completely by time.
The world's most precious compassion brought eternal ruin. Only love can transcend divine laws and the passage of millennia.
