Yuanhuang War Chronicles

In the Old Martial Era, the earliest of the human race tempered their martial path with nothing but flesh and blood. Everything changed when the first transcendent beast was born. By dissecting creatures capable of commanding water and fire, humanity glimpsed the mysteries of the vital energy coursing through heaven and earth—and from that moment on, the martial path grew wild and unchecked. It was an age of darkness. Magnates of the demonic sects slaughtered martial artists and beasts alike, plundering their bloodlines to fuel their own cultivation. The Buddhist order spoke grandly of delivering the world, heedless of the carnage left in its wake. The great clans, determined to forge supreme bloodlines, abducted young children and sealed them away in frozen abysses. Amid the chaos, hearts twisted into something demonic, and the killing never ceased. Then a Daoist swept onto the world stage, purging the land of its calamities and bringing the dark Old Martial Era to an end. He passed down the foundations of the martial path and established nine great realms of cultivation: Flesh Forging, Bone Tempering, Viscera Refining, Qi Gathering, Origin Condensation, Divine Powers, Transcendence, Celestial, and Great Emperor. Of these, the Great Emperor realm remained mere conjecture—for a thousand years, not a single soul had ever set foot within it. Thus dawned the New Martial Era. Across a millennium of golden prosperity, countless prodigies and heroes rose to prominence—until the day the yao race invaded, and the Eight Great Heavenly Fiends of the yao emerged to shake the world. The story officially begins the moment the young Lu Wuque steps out of Qinglin City.