The three waves of mystic energy before the bone-testing stele in Hantan Town cannot bend Lin Han’s spine. When his twin life palaces awaken beneath the moon, the young man, with heaven-burning purple fire in his left hand and soul-devouring black mist coiling around his right, finally understands: the Nine Heavens Mystic Domain needs a new way of life.
On the day of the Tianfeng Academy entrance exam, he drags a rusty iron sword along the Path of Heart’s Inquiry. As the heirs of the great clans mock this abandoned son of a poor family, the broken sword taps the ground, and a hundred thousand swords in the sword tombs ring in unison.
“You say someone at the Mystic Body Realm has no place on the Star-Seeking Platform?” Lin Han steps on the saint’s son, whose cultivation has been devoured, and points his sword at the elders of the nine academies. “Then let this mystic stele see what it means to devour the heavens!”
In the Dark Palace, the remnant soul of an ancient Demon Emperor whispers day and night. In the Bright Palace, the suppressed blood of an ancient god grows ever more turbulent. When the nine sites of inheritance begin collapsing one after another, the saints finally realize:
The boy who was always sweeping the library had long since carved the laws of all creation into his sword bones.
