On a night of torrential rain, the young Nangong Ze fled to Qingyang Town carrying a bronze burial coffin on his back. The martial tribulation marks on the charred city walls silently foretold the fate of humanity’s greatest prodigies. The coffin held the remains of Martial Emperors from ages past, and it was also a simulator connected to the primordial world. Within the Three Thousand Tribulation Realms, he once shook the Eastern Emperor Bell with his fists during the Lich Tribulation and seized the God-Striking Whip on the battlefield of the Investiture of the Gods. In the real world, however, he endured in silence like a dormant dragon. With the hidden force of the Body Tempering Realm, he crushed the Marrow-Washing Jade bestowed by the Jade Void Palace. “Why should the Martial Dao need charity from the Immortal Dao?” His words heralded the beginning of his defiance against heaven and the Dao.
From grasping Hou Yi’s Sun-Shooting Steps as ghost soldiers borrowed passage through Soul-Burial Valley, to awakening a five-clawed golden dragon with the Kongtong Seal in its mouth deep inside an ancient tomb; from devouring a lightning tribulation to forge a Zhou Tian Star Martial Body, to uncovering the astonishing truth of the “Martial Dao Era’s cycle of reincarnation” before the Nine Tribulations Stele, every step Nangong Ze took was stained with blood. The Jade Void Sword Disciple suppressed human tribes with a Martial-Eradicating Green Lotus, the Blood River Patriarch refined the bones of Martial Emperors into a banner, and the Ziwei Emperor seized humanity’s fortune by means of the Investiture of the Gods. The Immortal cultivators laid one deadly trap after another, yet none could withstand the fearsome power of the Heaven-Burying Coffin, which devoured all techniques.
When the bronze coffin tore open a rift in Guixu, a mural appeared depicting the First Emperor’s ancient battlefield campaign against heaven. The shadow of the first Martial Emperor, lingering in the river of the Martial Dao, whispered, “Become an Emperor through the Nine Tribulations, and only then can you reshape the world.” The tribulation markings in Nangong Ze’s left eye split open the sky. Using the Zhou Tian Star Marrow-Refining Method, he drew the attention of the Zixiao Palace. At last, at an anchor point in time and space, he unleashed the first of the Nine Heaven-Burying Forms: “Rending the Firmament.” On that day, the boy from Qingyang Town shattered the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and engraved his true name amid nine layers of lightning tribulation. Deep within the burial coffin that devoured the blood of Saints, the blood-red dawn of the primordial world was reflected, with Ying Zheng raising his sword to wage war against heaven...
