After the cataclysm, the land lay in ruins. The fear of death was etched forever into the hearts of humanity, and the desire to live grew without limit.
The sages of old had climbed Mount Everest, visited Chang'e, and dreamed of the vast sea of stars.
But now, with survival and reproduction their only concerns, humanity saw just one mountain ahead: immortality.
Driven by reverence for life and a devotion to science, a group of people reached the summit in the tenth year before the New Era. Research into digitizing human consciousness took shape, and clinical trials succeeded in uploading human consciousness into the intelligent terminals of robotic bodies. At last, humanity opened the door to mechanical ascension.
A small group of elites at the pinnacle of wealth and power became immortal first. Humanity's joy at the prospect of immortality had only just begun when the publication of a paper on the continent's resources and energy erected an impassable barrier between the immortals and ordinary humans.
In the first year of the New Era, the first immortal in human history, Qiu Guangming, joined forces with the immortals of the Ten Great Families and announced the founding of the Immortal Kingdom. The kingdom would be governed by a council of immortal families, which would limit the number of immortals. Thus began the era in which immortals enslaved and exploited ordinary humans.
Is immortality truly humanity's final destination?
What is the secret of immortality?
Will ordinary humans' resistance come to an end?
