The Primordial Chronicle: The Immortal Dao

After more than a decade of development, the prehistoric genre is awash in countless settings. This book has no intention of piling on formations, cultivation realms, or character relationships. Instead, it aims to rebuild this world from a more fundamental perspective.

Spiritual energy is the foundation of this world.

It has a total supply, it is consumed, and it leaves behind residue. It is not an inexhaustible gift, but a finite credit line that can be drawn down. Cultivation is, at its core, borrowing spiritual energy from Heaven and Earth. The borrowed energy will eventually turn into waste spiritual energy. When the waste builds up to a critical point, a tribulation follows. The first great calamity of the Dragon and Han eras, the war between the Wu and the Demon races, and the great Investiture of the Gods calamity may seem to be struggles between good and evil, or battles for the survival of a race. In truth, each is the world settling debts that have accumulated beyond its capacity to bear.

Every part of this book’s narrative unfolds around this logic. Pangu did not create the world through a great act of sacrifice. His power had finally run out, and he became all things. The innate gods and demons were so powerful because they were born during a period when spiritual energy was highly concentrated, and paid no price for it. Luohou was terrifying not because of how powerful he was, but because he represented the world’s return to chaos after its spiritual energy was exhausted. The Six Saints were appointed not because of their virtue and prestige, but because they were delaying the System’s collapse and repairing it.

As you read this book, always remember: behind every choice made by a living being, the cause of every war, and the outbreak of every tribulation, there is an unseen thread of spiritual energy. Gods are beings who have consumed too much spiritual energy. Demons and monsters are beings who overturn the System. Sages are beings who found a way to stop borrowing before the System collapsed.