As If a Lifetime Had Passed

An old story brought over from elsewhere · danmei · TF [Prologue 1 · Fuji's Choice] Have you made up your mind? Yes. You'll sleep for three hundred years. Yes. You'll lose all your memories of the Underworld. I know. Including Bai Yue. A brief silence. Yes... [Prologue 2 · The Underworld] The Underworld is the true ruler of all creation. Every social order, including that of the human world, is an appendage of the Underworld. Its people, too, are born, grow old, get sick, and die, with two exceptions: the rulers, the Asura, and the Four Protectors, whose status is second only to theirs: Pan Yang, Jiao She, Zang Ao, and Ye Mao. They all follow the same brutal succession process: a new generation of the family kills the previous generation and takes its place, or is killed by them while awaiting the next challenger. Once their position is secured, their appearance never changes again until they are killed by their successor. [Prologue 3 · The Truth] The reigning Asura in this story is unprecedented in all the countless millennia: there are two. To be precise, they are brothers: the elder, Hei Ri Asura, and the younger, Bai Yue Asura. Among the Four Protectors, there is also someone without precedent: Ye Mao. He is the only protector whose power surpasses that of the Asura, a legendary figure. His appearance is forever fixed at the age of seventeen, when he was still young and ignorant. That was the age at which he killed the previous Ye Mao with his own hands. Now, fourteen hundred years have passed. Theme: