Cast aside as the family’s unwanted son, Chen Xiao swallows a mysterious black jade bead on the rainy night his younger sister dies. From that moment on, he is drawn into a world-shaking conspiracy spanning three thousand realms. The time-space paradoxes of an ancient city hanging upside down, the cloning blood pools beneath the Blackwater lode, the writhing remnants of chaos in the eye of the Northern Sea... When cultivation civilization collides with technological relics, and the beloved women of his past become the seeds of his cultivation in this life, Chen Xiao gradually comes to understand: so-called ascension is nothing more than a cycle-of-rebirth experiment controlled by a higher civilization.
Bearing the Star Pivot Key and carrying a seed of the Chaos Dao, Chen Xiao will tear away the hypocritical facade of the cultivation world, caught between the seventy-two floating immortal cities and the Nine Nether Demon Alliance:
- A formation master reincarnated from the Moon Goddess, turned into a living formation core after her memories are sealed
- A demon sect’s saintess with a split personality, an ancient netherworld sleeping within her
- A princess of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, whose sealed body must absorb vital essence every day
- An appraiser suffering the backlash of Heaven’s secrets, who knows the price of every ancient ruin
When the nine tiers of Heaven’s gates prove to be an illusion, and every beloved woman is revealed to be a pawn, what lies at the end of this path defying Heaven: rewriting the laws of the universe, or becoming a new observer?
Come on, come on, come on!