In the Cultivation World, during ancient times.
The Four Auspicious Divine Beasts, protectors of all living beings, fought against the Lord of Demons and Monsters. The Divine Beasts fell in battle, and a wisp of the Lord's primordial spirit escaped into the Six Realms of Samsara, its whereabouts unknown.
From then on, demonic forces grew rampant, plagued further by malicious ghosts and spirits. The Heavenly Dao struggled bitterly for tens of thousands of years, ultimately proving powerless to save the world.
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