In the brutal world of Guigu Bahuang, cultivators forge their paths in blood, climbing a stairway of bones on the road to immortality. An unknown youth rises from obscurity and, through trials of life and death, catches a glimpse of a world-shaking secret: the shocking truth behind why no one has ascended for millions of years is bound up with the very source of the Eight Wastelands. As the truth shatters like a reflection in a flower or the moon in water, the burden he carries is more than the path to immortality. It is the karma of an entire cultivation era collapsing.
