The day Nan Feng's heart was ripped out, his bones were stripped away, and a slave brand was burned into his flesh, the Third Elder crushed his younger sister's Supreme Immortal Bone and sneered, “With your lowly bloodline, you're fit for nothing but feeding the man-eating ants of the Demon Abyss!” Eighteen years later, the corpses gnawed by those ants form a blood-red road reaching to the heavens. He returns, stepping over the skulls of countless demons, while the Scarlet Phoenix Realm-Burning Crossbow behind him aims at the divine bloodline of the Nan family. The Six Gates of Reincarnation thunder open in the starry sky, and beyond them, Netherworld war cavalry from three thousand realms bow low.
Watching Nan Feng tear open the Heavenly Gate all alone, the head of the Punishment Hall screams, “You're nothing but a cast-off! Why would the Hall of Reincarnation and the Fengxiao Empire risk their lives for a condemned son with a corrupted bloodline?!”
They don't know that Nan Feng's spine has long since fused with the Chaos Flame in the deepest reaches of the Demon Abyss, or that he holds the most vile secret of the Immortal Realm in his palm. Returning to the Nan family, he vows to seize control of the Immortal clan, clear his parents' names, and cleanse his own bloodline of its stigma.
Again and again, betrayal and slaughter drive him to break through heart-wrenching restraints. He uses the Immortal Nan family as his chessboard, drawing forces from across the Immortal Realm into the game.
When his beloved, Luo Qingyu, detonates her Nine-Aperture Ice Soul Physique to break Nan Dige's God-Slaying Domain for him, and eight hundred battered soldiers tear open their chests, staining the Nan family's altar with blood tainted by God-Eroding Gu, Nan Feng crushes Nan Tianque's life token amid a rain of blood. “Back then, you used my mother's soul to nourish the Supreme Azure Immortal Cauldron. Today, I'll use the souls of the entire Nan family to slay immortals, throw the heavens into chaos, and put an end to this calamity of immortality!”
Standing before the immortal gates with an immortal's head beneath his foot, he places the final piece on the board and says, “This time, I'm not just going to win by half a move against Heaven. I'm going to flip the entire game of immortality.”
