Xiao Chen, a genius youth whose bones were extracted and meridians stolen, is taking part in a bloodline recognition rite at his family altar when he unexpectedly draws down a heavenly tribulation of ninefold thunder that shatters the Soul-Testing Stone. From within the broken jade pendant appears the phantom of a mysterious woman: "The ninth drop of Imperial Blood has finally awakened..."
When the Inspectors of the Nine Heavenly Domains smash through the Xiao family's gates, and the saintess who was his childhood sweetheart stabs through his divine palace with her own hands, the youth finally learns that he is a forbidden being who should have perished in an ancient calamity. In his shattered memories, all nine layers of the heavenly domains are enemies, and every drop of Imperial Blood conceals the power to overturn the heavens.
In his left hand, he wields the Chaos Heaven-Devouring Art, which can devour the Heavenly Dao. His right eye seals the sharp-tongued soul of a woman who calls herself "this Emperor." Starting from the lowest-ranked Cold Abyss Heavenly Domain, Xiao Chen climbs heavenward over the corpses of prodigies. But he discovers that an even greater conspiracy has long shrouded the Nine Heavens: the so-called formidable enemies he has slain are nothing but puppets on strings, manipulated by the true mastermind behind the scenes.
The dark upheaval that comes once every ninety thousand years is drawing near. When the final seal on the Imperial Blood is broken, the entire Nine Heavens Profound Realm trembles beneath his feet. "So the so-called Nine Great Emperors were nothing but... servants who stole my bloodline?"
