Thousands of years ago, the Heavenly Venerable Dao Teacher rose from obscurity and imparted to all living beings a new methodology that plundered heaven and seized earth.

From that moment on, innate aptitude ceased to be a barrier to entry. Everyone could cultivate!

The Xuanhuang World was thus altered forever.

In the beginning, the cultivation world did experience a brief golden age in the wake of the new methodology's spread. 

Nascent Soul cultivators were as common as dogs, and Spirit Transformation cultivators roamed the earth in abundance.

But just as Li Fan's Kun-Peng essence blood experiment had demonstrated, such unrestrained proliferation and devouring was bound to provoke backlash from heaven and earth.

The emergence of the restriction known as the Exclusivity of Techniques struck the cultivators of that era like a hammer blow to the skull. Then the...