Kindling Fire to Suppress Heaven

In the beginning of the Primordial Age, Pangu split the heavens and earth, and the origins of creation gave rise to the myriad races of the world. The Gods commanded the stars, the Demons ruled the mountains and seas, the Witches governed the netherworld, and dragons, phoenixes, and qilin roamed the eight corners of the earth. They were divine from birth, wielding innate laws. Only humanity was born in the dust, without scales or feathers, horns or fangs, and was seen by the other races as the lowliest kindling. Then Suiren drilled wood in the Great Wilderness to make fire. What he kindled was no ordinary flame, but a spark fueled by the human heart and its joys and sorrows, passed down from generation to generation and never extinguished: the Flame of Inheritance. At last, humanity had a light of its own. Emperor Zhuanxu severed the connection between Heaven and Earth, sealing the gods above the Nine Heavens. From then on, human emperors ruled the mortal realm, and the Flame of Inheritance was passed down for three thousand years. Three thousand years later, Heaven's seal began to weaken. The gods of the Nine Heavens sought to return to the mortal realm and restore an age of blood sacrifices. Demons, Witches, ghosts, and fiends watched for cracks in the seal, infiltrating the mortal world to hunt humanity. In Kunwu City, in the Central Province, Xu Yue, the eighteen-year-old son of a weaver, was heading toward the day fate had set for him. That night, Heaven's seal cracked.