The abandoned boy Wei Lang touched the fateful scale of Jiuying, an ancient ferocious beast, and brought down the twelve-story towers’ deadly punishment: the flaying of its scales. As he flees, he gradually uncovers the truth: the twelve Heavenly Law Prisons floating above the clouds are a lie, built to imprison the Primordial Candle Dragon; and those called “poisonous tumors on the reverse scales” are actually awakened beings capable of seeing through the truth behind the fateful scales. When the bone city of the mirage begins to breathe and whispers rise from the Formless Sword Mound, Wei Lang takes up the broken dragon horn his master left behind and embarks on a path of burning scales, rewriting cause and effect and slaying Heaven to prove the Dao...
