Era of Humanity

Era of Humanity is a classical xianxia novel by Kissing Fingertips, serialized and completed on Zongheng Chinese Network, totaling about 770,000 characters. Set in the primordial era, the story begins when heaven and earth have just taken shape and countless beings each gain their own opportunities: gods, demons, shamans, and devils occupy spirit veins and blessed lands, while humans are merely one small branch among countless beings, regarded as blood offerings and pawns, struggling to survive in the crevices. Nan Luo, the priest of the Yangping clan, stumbles onto the path of cultivation—he has served as a sword-attending boy at the Undying Palace on Phoenix Mountain, sat in vain for six years to learn spells, slain a demon prince, been appointed a star lord of the Heavenly Court, and made deadly enemies of the shaman and demon clans through his conduct. The novel links major ancient events across vast spans of time—the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, the Shaman-Demon Chaos, the Reincarnation War, the Investiture of the Gods, and the Opening of the Six Realms—allowing the protagonist to grow from a manipulated pawn into someone who can place stones on the chessboard of heaven and earth. Looking back after endless ages, the sword at his waist has fought all the gods and Buddhas of heaven, and the mirror in his palm can illuminate the great thousand worlds. The work is built on "small people," writing about humanity earning a measure of heart and dignity amid the contention of ten thousand races. Nan Luo is cold on the outside but warm within, values friendship, and keeps his word; his obsession—"In this life I seek nothing but freedom of body and mind"—runs through the entire book. The prose carries Gu Long-style melancholy and wistfulness, is steeped in immortal atmosphere, and does not deliberately rank its cultivation system, leading many readers to regard it as a distinctive "hidden gem" of the primordial-current genre.