Defying the Dao

When primordial chaos split, the Six Realms were formed and the Heavenly Dao established its laws. The gods became immortal, and all living things followed their appointed fates, unchanged for millennia. For countless years, the Heavenly Dao has shackled all living beings, suppressed unusual bloodlines, and cemented the hierarchy of the Six Realms. Human cultivators can never ascend to godhood, while the beings of the demon and netherworld realms are branded heretics by the Heavenly Dao and forever denied transcendence. To lock its order in place, the ancient gods slaughtered countless bloodlines that defied heaven and buried many secrets of antiquity, turning the people of the Six Realms into puppets of the Heavenly Dao. Ling Xuan, a down-and-out youth from the human realm, bears the only Chaos Defying Dao bloodline in existence, a descendant of an ancient god who defied heaven. Since childhood, his fate has been sealed by the Heavenly Dao and his cultivation locked away, leaving him to suffer the contempt of others. When he is driven to the brink, he unexpectedly unlocks the power of his bloodline and glimpses the Heavenly Dao's hypocrisy and the bloody truth behind the ancient apotheosis. Determined to break free of fate and shatter an injustice that has lasted for millennia, Ling Xuan joins forces with companions from every realm and traverses the immortal mountains of the human realm, the divine domains of the Immortal Realm, the hidden lands of the Demon Realm, the abysses of the Devil Realm, and the ghostly wastes of the Netherworld, taking on the order-keeping gods of the Heavenly Dao. Along the way, he meets a prodigy from an immortal sect who stays true to his principles, a Demon Realm lord burdened by a blood feud, a patient young lord of the Devil Realm, a Netherworld saintess who commands reincarnation, and an ancient remnant god who has withdrawn from the world. All of them have been oppressed by the Heavenly Dao

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