Canglan Continent.
Steam engines and the early stirrings of medieval art and literature defined this continent.
Because Tang Chuan had poured considerable resources into this place over the past few days, Canglan Continent's development had remained in a state of vigorous revival.
This continent consisted of more than a dozen kingdoms. An empire like the Eagle Empire, one that had unified the world, had yet to emerge.
When development moved too quickly, one outcome was inevitable: a disconnect formed between material reality and forms of entertainment, and the explosively emerging cultural and intellectual currents.
The gap between rich and poor on this continent was enormous, and the wealthy nobles had already experienced everything they could possibly enjoy.
Yet without the abundant entertainment products of later generations, such as mobile phones and film, the nobles' spiritual pursuits had fallen into a hollow, decadent state after repeatedly indulging in pleasure to the extreme.
It was under such circumstances that an organization known as the "Mysterious Church" found fertile ground to grow.
From its founding by a single noble to its spread through most kingdoms, the organization had taken only two years.
Though it had not received official recognition from the major kingdoms, it had attracted countless nobles who craved novelty and lacked deeper pursuits.
And the deity worshipped by their church was, astonishingly, an indescribable entity of an unconventional form, one that naturally inspired terror and mystery.
There was no need to say what its true body was. It was none other than the juvenile forms grown from the three chunks of flesh Tang Chuan had cast in that day.
This was something Tang Chuan had not anticipated.
When he had thrown in those chunks of flesh, he had merely wanted to test whether the humans he had created would more readily