In the final days of the Great Plague Era, cultivators had forced the vast majority of mortals to relocate to various grotto-heavens and minor worlds.

But as the Exclusivity of Immortal Techniques tightened its grip, the cultivators ultimately could not escape the fate of turning on one another. The immortal sects were shattered, and the civilization of cultivators entered a long, dark age.

As the saying goes, one rises as the other falls.

The number of cultivators dwindled to near extinction. But the mortals, tenacious as weeds, began to sprout anew from every corner of the world.

As for the origins of these newly born mortals, some said they were stragglers who had slipped through the cracks during the Great Migration. Others claimed they were the offspring left behind by the cultivators. Still others whispered that mortals...