Long divided, long united-the way of the world. When the Black Bird descended upon Shang, would Haotian ask the Dao Ancestor to intervene?

The way of the world.

Long divided, long united.

After the Heavenly Court forced Human Emperor Yu and King of the Nine Provinces Ji Fengming to leave the Great Xia Court,

the realm descended into a state of warlord rule.

Kings across the land who were not of the imperial clan chose descendants of Emperor Yu to support, using them as a claim in the struggle for the realm.

Everyone wanted to crown himself king and found a dynasty.

Everyone wanted to take the seat of Human Race Co-Lord!

Over the next several centuries, the Nine Provinces fractured into hundreds of kingdoms, large and small!

Through those centuries of turmoil,

the Human Race endured countless wars.

The slaughter was savage, and the wars brought a host of terrible consequences.

As war spread, the populations of those hundreds of kingdoms plummeted.

Years of war and exploitation killed soldiers and commoners on a vast scale. Farming stalled, trade routes were severed, and treasuries ran dry.

As time went on,

countless books and treasured archives vanished in the flames of war, while the education system collapsed and splintered.

Countless cities were destroyed or born anew in war. Vast resources were plundered and exhausted, and the rulers of the various kingdoms stripped countless commoners of their freedom, binding them like slaves to be seized and used!!

Amid the wars,

struggles over faith and legitimacy became the driving forces!

For centuries, every kingdom fought to claim the Human Race's rightful legacy and the seat of Human Race Co-Lord.

They fought with savage ferocity.

Meanwhile, the rulers of kingdoms large and small spurned "technology." They stopped using it, dismissed it as frivolous trickery, and held it in contempt.

Some even deliberately destroyed books and archives concerning "technology."

They issued orders targeting craftsmen, suppressing these so-called practitioners