Jiang Buyan, the cursed orphan of the Jiang clan, awakened the Demon-Sealing Sword Casket beside the Silent River. He carried the Shadow-Devouring Casket and the blood of a soul-devouring dragon. On the day the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, his white hair turned into dragon horns, and he learned the truth: the Three Teachings had been raising a dragon for three hundred years. He used a hundred thousand broken swords as a stele, shattered the lie of the Saints' immortal bodies, and severed the chains of reincarnation. At the summit of Silent Words Peak, he challenged the Heavenly Dao with the sword of his heart. If the heavens were a cage, then the sword's cry would be thunder through the nine skies, cleaving open the shackles above all living beings.