The Divine Mountain shattered, and the Divine Stone ascended to the heavens along with thirty-six clans, proclaiming themselves as the Immortal Realm. In order to uncover the secrets of the Divine Stone, the Immortal Clans sent their disciples down to the mortal world to spread their legacy, thus becoming the Thirty-Six Immortal Clans.

As time passed, the thirty-six Immortal Clans ruled the world, passing down their traditions through the ages.

The mysterious Nightmare Palace emerges into the world, drawing together the great families of the Immortal Clans. Storms gather, and great strife descends. A concubine-born son of an Immortal Clan, unwilling to die in mediocrity as a discarded pawn of his family, rises amidst the chaos to defy fate and change his destiny.