In a wasteland world where civilization has collapsed, cultivation has long since become “source-energy modification,” monopolized by the powerful. The price is a shattered foundation and enslavement to sources of contamination.
In the trash heaps of Rustiron Town, the boy Chen Xu fights wild dogs over half a pouch of nutritional paste, his life flickering like a candle in the wind. One act of kindness leads him to inherit a jade slip of cultivation techniques from a bygone civilization. From then on, he embarks on the path of the “inner realm,” setting himself against the world.
From a scavenger who could only take a beating to a powerhouse who can send rogue cultivators flying with one punch, Chen Xu’s growth draws the attention of the Black Serpent Gang, which rules the region, and the Purifiers, an organization tasked with maintaining “order.”
He is no born hero. He simply refuses to watch his neighbors get bullied or let the smile of the woman he loves disappear. So he builds a power base on the black market, using a logistics company as a front while following the path of protection. He takes on three Ironbone Realm powerhouses alone and withstands the energy blast of a Qi Realm expert with his bare body.
The jade slip guides him, and conviction is the foundation of his path. While the whole world pursues shortcuts to power, Chen Xu uses the most primal force of his blood and qi to prove what the true “Dao” is.
This is not merely one man’s legendary journey to immortality, but an epic about the spark of civilization being rekindled amid the ruins.
