The world has lost its spiritual energy, and China is in its age of decline.
Lu Yuan woke up to find that he had transmigrated to a strange world where immortals and gods had vanished, martial arts and Daoist arts were fading, and steam-powered machinery was rapidly flourishing.
Here, foreign tribes seized the nation and founded the Great Jin, forcing people to shave their heads and change their clothes, seizing land and enslaving people, and trampling across thousands of miles of the realm.
Here, the immortal Demon Empress controlled the court from within, bringing disaster to the nation and leaving the land strewn with corpses, while outside, the powerful Shénluo nations sent ironclad warships and steam airships to bombard the gates. The Jin court suffered defeat after defeat, ceding territory and paying reparations, stripped of its sovereignty and humiliated.
At a time when the land was in turmoil, battered by storms and on the brink of collapse,
Lu Yuan arrived with a heavenly tome in hand. He could use Fate points to unlock the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits’ Arts and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends’ Techniques, forging them into divine fruits:
[Earthly Fiend: Feeding] Consume all things and extract their essence to strengthen yourself, achieving an extraordinary body from the inside out.
[Earthly Fiend: Radiance] Chant incantations to summon a protective divine light. All arts are powerless against it, and every evil thing is kept at bay. Its light envelops the body and has countless wondrous uses.
[Heavenly Spirit: Nine Breaths of Qi] Breathe in and out for nine breaths, drawing in the primordial qi of the universe and refining it into magical power. This is the supreme Daoist method of qi cultivation: simply breathing makes you stronger!
Lu Yuan: “Martial arts and Daoist magic, cannons and warships? I’m going straight to cultivating immortality!”
