In the Forbidden World, Dao Creators were elusive, almost never seen by mortals.
Even their respective imperial courts existed within their own Secret Realms, with only servants carrying out their will.
But a million years ago, there had been a grand gathering where the emperors of the Forbidden World had all manifested!
In all the history since time immemorial, the Dao Creators had manifested together only that once.
There were countless rumors about that gathering.
Some said that signs of a great calamity had appeared, so the Dao Creators had prepared to face it together.
Others said that at the gathering, the Dao Creators had been at daggers drawn, arguing endlessly over the Path of Gray Mist, the Parasitic Path, the Path of Creation, and more.
Some said that an imperial battle had even broken out at the gathering...
But there was one thing everyone agreed on.
That gathering had been brought to an end by a Shaman...
They said that while the Dao Creators were locked in endless dispute, a Shaman had appeared, performed a Shamanic Dance, and then the great emperors... had all dispersed.
It was said that the Shaman had left behind a prophecy about the generations to come.
"Reincarnation reappears, black smoke extinguishes; Twelve Mars fall from the sky"—those were the prophecy's first two lines.
Moreover, those two lines... had spread among the people from the various imperial courts.
So the world believed them without a doubt.
No one in the world knew what sort of being had left the prophecy. They only knew that he was a Shaman...
The imperial courts had once said that the rest of the prophecy would hold meaning only after its first two lines came true.
Thus, no one in the world knew the rest of the prophecy.
Now that