I Dismantle Cultivation in the Apocalypse

The human realm is one of the Six Realms, and demonic energy is slowly consuming it. Demonic energy is no natural calamity: it is a miasma born from the imbalance of the Six Realms. The human realm has retreated into a patchwork of city-states, their walls upheld by talisman arrays and their spiritual power supplied by ley lines. For thousands of years, there has been only one way to learn cultivation: a master teaches an apprentice, relying on insight, talent, and unspoken understanding. No one has ever asked why. Until someone arrived who wanted to take apart everything he saw.