Xiu Bai woke up in a dark room, not remembering anything significant about how he got here. As he looks around the room, he notices that he’s in a jail cell. He tries to get up and move around, but his hands and legs are chained to the wall. Xiu Bai, in a futile attempt, yells, “Where and why am I here!?” But there is no response. His next move is to forcefully break the chains, but there seems to be some sort of magical power. “This must be a sealing rune way above my current understanding!”
Xiu Bai then sees a flickering light coming down the hall. Despite being chained to the wall, he can see out the window. As Xiu Bai looks out the window, he sees a ferocious-looking demon holding the source of light he saw earlier, a lantern that seems to be lit up with a magical sort of power. “Should I yell at the guard to unbind me, or will that be my end?” Xiu Bai thinks to himself. “Why am I bound to this wall in a prison cell!?” Yells Xiu Bai. The demon responds, but Xiu Bai can’t understand the language. Xiu Bai panics as he realizes that there may really be no way to get any information out of the cell.
As Xiu Bai is panicking about what to do, he hears a beautiful female voice singing from the cell beside his. There seems to be a hole in the side of the wall that was placed by the previous inmate. He looks in the hole and sees that a woman is attached to the wall just as he is. The woman is not of the same race as him; she seems to have pointed ears and is quite short for a woman. Is this the elf race, which he has only read about in history books? “Hey, do you know anything about what this place is? ” Xiu Bai asks loud enough to get the attention of the woman singing in the cell next to his. She answers in the same language as mine. “This is the demon’s prison, which takes captive weak prisoners."
Xiu Bai asks, “But why would you or I be trapped here? I don’t remember anything about how or why I am now held captive here.” The woman says, “The reason I’m here is that I was hunting in the forest when I stumbled across some violent demons. They then captured me and locked me in here…” The woman pauses for a moment quite randomly, with a very concerned look on her face. “Are you human!?” the woman exclaims. “Yes, I am.” Xiu Bai answers with a confused look on his face. The woman exclaims quite excitedly, “The demons wiped out the human race a year ago!”
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Many thoughts then rush into Xiu Bai’s head. How do I exist if humans were wiped out a while ago? Why was I spared when the rest of the race was destroyed? I then ask the woman, “Why have humans been destroyed? The demons, elves, and humans had no conflict from what I remember.” The woman says, “Despite humans being the weakest race, the human kings figured out a way to gain strength that would rival even the strongest demon king or elf lord; they called it cultivation; it was gained from the art of gathering an unknown force called qi. But this is all I know.” I ask her what her name is before looking around my room a bit more. “My name is Jing Li,” says the elf woman. I thank her for the help and then look around my room to see if there are any more clues on what has happened to humans or why I was left alive.
As I glance around the room, I notice a scroll on the ground. The scroll is in perfect condition despite being on the dust-ridden floor. I reach as far as I can to pick up the scroll. The content on the scroll are not characters as I would expect it to be. Instead, they are symbols of the legendary dragon, phoenix and denglong. I can’t understand what this scroll’s purpose is, but the material seems to be made out of something with ten times the strength of traditional paper. As I intently stare at the scroll, I notice some small text at the bottom that says, “Try to extend your consciousness to the scroll.” I can’t quite understand what that means, but I try to absorb the symbols on the scroll into my mind somehow. As I am trying to do this, the greatest amount of pain I have ever felt goes rushing into my body and into the core of my abdomen.