The nine realms of mountains and seas, primordial since time immemorial.
Since chaos was sundered and the mountains and seas took shape, the dragon race had ruled the stars and heavens, commanded the divine beasts of countless realms, and stood above all living things.
Dragons lived without end, and their power knew no bounds.
But all things decline after reaching their height. The dragon race multiplied without end, its bloodline spreading throughout the heavens. The ancient dragon ancestral bloodline gradually slipped out of control, giving rise to a monstrous evil that sought to devour the mountains and seas, annihilate all races, and overturn the universe!
At the end of antiquity, the Dragon Ancestor's fury ran rampant. The false Dragon Court seized control of the Heavenly Dao, seeking to place the dragon race above all others, purge humanity, the demon race, the gods, and the sea folk, and establish an eternal dragon dynasty!
An age of chaos was coming, and all creation stood on the brink of annihilation.
At that time, the ancient Yinglong defied heaven and forged its body into a sword, cleaving apart the dragon race's dominion over the Heavenly Dao and shattering the ancestral bloodline's evil. It spent ten million years of its essence and poured all its divine bones and blood into forging twelve Dragon-Slaying Swords.
One sword suppressed one calamity, one sword sealed one disaster, one sword slew one dragon!
The twelve Dragon-Slaying Swords were not weapons of slaughter. They were the Heavenly Dao's decree of balance, the final shackles keeping the mountains and seas in check.
The twelve swords suppressed twelve dragon calamities, bound the Dragon Ancestor, subdued the Dragon Court, and sealed the dragon disasters, forcibly restoring balance to a world on the verge of collapse.
But defying heaven to slay dragons came at a price that could never be repaid, even in ten thousand ages.
Yinglong fell, and the twelve Dragon-Slaying Swords shattered, their souls scattering across the nine realms of mountains and seas. They vanished into secret realms, hid among the bones of beasts, sank into the Guixu, and were sealed within divine courts.
Sealed away with them was a falsified account of the truth behind the dragon-slaying.
A thousand years passed, and the world changed beyond recognition.
The surviving dragon clans altered the ancient histories, erased the Dragon Ancestor's monstrous crimes against the world, slandered the dragon slayers as evil traitors to the Dao, and declared the twelve Dragon-Slaying Swords forbidden weapons of the heavens.
