The rules of this entire world were such that half had to listen to the Emperor in the Golden Throne Hall, while the other half was up for negotiation, apportioned among three places, one was the thatched cottage above Kunlun, another was the Heavenly Dragon Institute, standing among the mountaintops with chains crossing the river, and the last was the Taoist Sect, constantly challenged by various masterful martial artists.
In the thatched cottage lived an odd fellow, who had traveled the world and never met defeat, saddled with a melancholy spirit.
The Heavenly Dragon Institute was home to a group of madmen chasing the limits of power with the belief that 'the heavens lacked a handle, the earth lacked a ring', with generational emergence of those whose fists could connect with the divine.
