In the deep yet elusive mists, seeds of chaos were suddenly scattered. The laws forged by a crimson power gave birth to the first world.
In the silence, a hundred thousand years passed. Or perhaps a million. The remnants of that crimson power gradually thinned into a sinister purple, and the demons came into being. From birth, they possessed nearly indestructible bodies. No living creature could oppose them, and so all were enslaved and ruthlessly brutalized.
The oppression grew ever worse. When the suffering creatures were on the brink of extinction, a new beginning arrived: two gods were born among the beastfolk and humans! One called himself Shanhai, the other Xinghe. After a thousand years of battle, they finally sealed away the demons and their evil followers, but their own lives had reached their end.
To keep the demons from returning to this world, Shanhai used his own being to form mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas where living creatures could dwell, and set them over the seal. Xinghe, meanwhile, used his own being to form the sun, moon, stars, and the Twelve Realms Compass. Together, these became the Demon-Suppressing Realm. For this, they were revered as the Venerables.
Tens of thousands of years passed. Just as the Venerables had hoped, the inhabitants of the Demon-Suppressing Realm repeatedly succeeded in intercepting the reincarnations of the Demon Sovereign, again and again.
Yet one year, the Demon Sovereign's reincarnation, which should have appeared, did not. The demons' presence seemed to vanish as well. A thousand years have passed since then...
