Summit of the Dao Ruins

Ten millennia ago, the heavens were divided into two realms, and two opposing orthodoxies clashed over the very nature of cultivation. Since ancient times, the path of immortality has forked into two roads. The first is the Way of Heavenly Patterns—cultivators draw spiritual energy from the heavens, condense roots, and inscribe divine marks. This school has been upheld as the sole legitimate tradition by the Nine Heavens Divine Domain, which has monopolized the cultivation resources of the Nine Provinces for countless ages. Today, every sect and aristocratic clan recognizes it as the true righteous path. The second is the lost art of Void-Realm Body Cultivation—a path that neither borrows celestial power nor cultivates spiritual roots, but instead refines the primal Dao embryo within one's own flesh. In ages long past, this ancient discipline once suppressed the Heavenly Pattern cultivators so utterly that they could not even raise their heads. Yet in the primordial era, the Divine Domain launched the great Void-Heaven War, overturned entire realms, annihilated that competing tradition, and rewrote the annals of history. From that day forward, Void-Realm cultivation was branded as heretical and demonic, its heritage severed and its truth buried. Now, the world knows only the compliant path of heavenly patterns, believing it to be the sole road to immortality. Unaware of the shackles imposed upon them, mortals remain trapped within the limits set by Heaven itself—ceilings that were fixed ten thousand years ago, from which no one has ever broken free.