Lu Zhao, a prodigy of the cultivation world, bears a secret spirit-herding pact and devours every heavenly treasure with swarms of golden-devouring insects. When he glimpses the truth that the Heavenly Dao uses cultivators as kindling, he cuts off his path to immortality and melts his life-bound artifact into a bronze plow. With the roots of Heart-Corroding Grass as seeds, he tills an endless field of Dao amid the calamity ash of the Ruin Abyss. The three-thousand-year spirit-herding scheme is shattered, and a hundred thousand oil lamps illuminate a starless night. The bowed heads of wheat become blades that cleave the heavens.
