Born in the abyss of the Eastern Sea, the wicked dragon Ao Zha came into the world with a bloodstained reverse scale, fated to become a calamity. From shattering the Dragon-Locking Pillar and burning the heavens to prove his Dao, to cutting out his heart and severing his horns as blood stained the world, this evil dragon spurned by the Three Realms climbs to the highest heavens over the corpses of his maternal grandfather and siblings, only to point his Godslaying Halberd at the Heavenly Dao's destiny chart.
On the night the Dragon Silk Palace collapses, he uses the blood of his slain grandfather to nourish the divine halberd in the dragon's tomb. A forbidden pact with the yaksha Nüba unleashes Samadhi True Fire, burning across the Four Seas and Eight Desolations. When his Thousand-Scale Armor is shattered as an offering to the land, and the Ninth Heaven's palaces collapse with a roar, the world finally realizes that he has cut away more than his own heart. He tears out his affections with his own hands, wielding ruthlessness as a blade and madness as armor, then thrusts his halberd through the throat of fate as all living beings revile him.
Yet at the end, as the clouds break and the golden palaces fall, the Dragon God descends toward the Guixu with his shattered reverse scale. It turns out this world-destroying journey of defiance was a gift of the fiercest compassion to the Three Realms...
