According to ancient legend, a Humanizing Spring lay hidden in the mountains stretching across the far reaches of the land.
Any creature that drank from the Humanizing Spring would take human form. At first, there were no humans in this world. Various monsters drank from the spring by chance, and one by one, they became human.
They were humanity's ancestors, the origin of the human race.
It was said that monsters still occasionally drank from the Humanizing Spring by accident and slipped into human villages in human form. But their true nature remained, and they still fed on humans.
According to ancient legend, humans were the weakest race on earth. In those days, countless monsters and beasts preyed on them.
The ancestors of the Werewolves and the Bloodkin were lovers. They had three sons, but all three fell prey to monsters, leaving the couple beside themselves with grief.
Then a ghost wandering the land appeared before them. It allowed each of them one wish and promised to grant both.
The Werewolves' ancestor wished for the power to kill monsters. The Bloodkin's ancestor wished for the power to bring their children back to life. In the end, the ghost turned them into a Werewolf and a Vampire.
That ghost still wandered the land. If anyone met it, it would grant their wish.
There were many more stories like these: a door leading to every world, a stone tablet that turned people into idiots, a broken sword that reduced people to skeletons...
Even this one small village had all sorts of strange legends and customs. Behind them might lie the power left behind by prisoners who had died on the third level.
While Gao Shanggong and the others discussed these legends, Nameless heard Tianxing Mingyue speak from within the Nameless