"It's so dark here that it really doesn't make any difference in keeping my eyes open or closed"
"..."
"Why did they abandon me? Why am I suffering in this hellhole? Why?"
Thinking the events led to her being captured and sealed in the demonic Cave of Hell, Tang Yun'er started crying.
Tang Yun'er was reincarnated in the Martial-cultivation world of [Aetheria] after her death. It was the most regretful moment of her life because, before her death, she was the daughter of a billionaire and was enjoying her time on a luxury cruise with her girlfriend. It wasn't long before she found out that she was attracted to girls, and with all the money she was able to surround herself with multiple women of her liking.
But unfortunately, one of the women who was on the cruise trip was an assassin sent by her father's rival company to kidnap her. But a series of unfortunate accidents resulted in her dying. She was only 28 and didn't even get to enjoy her cruise trip.
After reincarnation, she found out that her new birth mother had a congenital heart condition and was about to die, so she was put up for adoption. She was only 5 months old and had been adopted by a local couple who were willing to take care of her.
Even though her living conditions were much worse than her previous life but she was excited to live in this new world. She was 5 years old now, and during these five years, she learned many things about the world and how much different it was from her previous world. In this world, people can awaken [Class/Job] and [Martial Soul] at the age of 10 and embark on the journey of Martial Arts and achieve longevity, and there are beings like [Martial Saint] who can live up to 100 million years.
This world is extremely similar to those that are mentioned in the cultivation novel, but there are concepts like [Martial Soul] [Class/Job], [Item Drop], etc. So the conclusion she came to was that this world was a fusion of [Cultivation], [Martial Art] & [Game-like Elements].
She also learned a lot about awakening and history from the books her brother collected. Her big brother was a child prodigy. Who is working on quantum Meta Energy Theory at the age of nine? He is just that smart. Due to her brother's hobby of collecting books, she had access to a room full of books.
She couldn't understand most of the book, so she only stuck to the history books that were stored in there.
According to the records stored in the history book, nobody knew when the awakening phenomenon started. It is stated that it has existed since the birth of humanity, and around the same time, Dungeon Gate began to appear, which, according to the researcher, is believed to be Secret Realm, traces of history and fragments of a destroyed world. Which is why dungeon is classified into three types: 1. [Secret Realm of Trials] 2. [Shadow Gate of the past] 3. [Gate of the small-World]
At some unknown point in the past, Demonic Gate started appearing in the world, and demons began coming out of the gates. The difference between ordinary monsters and demons was that demons possess demonic energy, which is extremely corruptive in nature and harmful to any non-demonic being, and anyone inflicted by demonic energy either dies or becomes a demon themself.
Those who become demons have their personality corrupted by their innermost evil thought & desires due to the influence of the demonic energy.
It was a Nightmare that almost destroyed the entire human race, but humanity won due appearance of the [First Human Martial Saint], and he alone, single-handedly killed nine [Demonic Saints] and ended the 1000-year war between humans and demons.
After [Demonic Saints] died, their body released a huge amount of [Demonic Energy]. Seeing this, most of the martial artists divided themself into two camps, one wanted to eradicate all traces of demons, and the other wanted to master this energy and create a demonic path of martial Arts.
These opposing views gave birth to the [Heavenly Human Alliance] and [Heavenly Demon Cult], and those practising martial arts using demonic energy are called Demonic-Human.
[Heavenly Demon Cult] soon rose to power with their incredible Cultivation speed, which was amplified by the demonic energy, and they were able to produce their [first Demonic Martial Saint], which was later known as the [First Heavenly Demon], founder of the [Heavenly Demon Cult]
[First Heavenly Demon] was able to fight [First Human Martial Saint] to a Stalemate, which was an incredible feat, knowing that [Demonic Path of Martial Arts] was much younger compared to every other Martial Path.
The place where Yun'er was born was invaded by the [Heavenly Demon Cult]. Normally, Martial-Artists from the [Heavenly Human Alliance] would have protected them, but the leaders of the [Heavenly Human Alliance] decided to abandon the southern island because there was no hope in protecting them.
According to them, there was no use in accumulating their resources in a place that could not produce a single Martial Artist of [Martial King Realm] in the last 100,000 Years was a wastage of resources. Not only that this place not produce any talent it was also the farthest place from the central continent, where the main headquarters of [Heavenly Human Alliance] exists. This makes it extremely difficult to defend the Southern Border. So they made a strategic decision to abandon the Southern Island.
During the entire Chaos, her adopted parents decided to abandon her, saying that there wasn't enough space in the evacuation boat, so they needed to prioritise their own child over her, and she was abandoned alongside the group of unlucky people who weren't able to evacuate on time.
Demonic cultivator invaded the island, captured all the kids aged from 4 to 6 and killed the rest of the remaining people and imprisoned all the kids in the demonic cave. Including her, there were a total of 100,000 children in the demonic cave, and each one was imprisoned in an individual room.
The reason they imprisoned all these young kids in the demonic cave was to train them into a [Demonic Cultivator] who will live and die for the cult and obey every order like a puppet.