On the night of the nine stars aligning over the Tianyuan Continent, medicine boy Lin Mo witnessed his parents' brutal deaths, and the ancient treasure Xuantian Pearl was implanted in his heart. When he awoke, he could see the flow of energy through the meridians and had attained divine mastery of medicine. But he was drawn into a shocking game spanning three thousand realms.
The nine-tailed celestial fox Su Jiu'er arrived bearing an old grudge over her heart being torn out. The dragon-claw scar over her heart resonated with Lin Mo's Xuantian Pearl. She taught him the Heart Sutra of the Pure Maiden and led him into the Sword Burial Abyss, yet when the fragments of the wheel of fate were pieced together, her shattered true soul was revealed. Only when Lin Mo's left hand transformed into a dragon did he learn that he was the evil corpse avatar severed from the Azure Dragon Divine Lord.
Beneath the gentle facade of Qingming, Valley Master of the Medicine Immortals, lay a cold and intricate scheme, as precise as machinery. Nine hundred corpses identical to Lin Mo crawled out of bronze coffins. Behind the Gate of Guixu, a mechanical wheel of fate revealed its fangs, ready to devour all worlds. And every fragment of the wheel of fate Lin Mo devoured brought him one step closer to the trap of becoming the new Heavenly Dao.
Su Jiu'er cut off three of her tails to give him three days of clarity. Qingming sacrificed a million lives to forge a Godslaying Blade. When Lin Mo gouged out his eyes with his dragon claws as an offering, he finally saw the blood-red truth: the so-called wheel of fate was nothing more than a gear used by ancient gods to imprison all living beings. And the thing that could truly sever fate was a half-drop of a tear that fell into the wound of a nine-tailed celestial fox when the Azure Dragon tore out his heart three hundred years ago.
