Are spiritual roots what determine your fate, while ordinary bones are fit only to be crushed beneath the strong?
Lin Wei, an orphaned girl from the Lin family, is declared to have a “crippled meridian,” a condition found in fewer than one in ten thousand, at the Spiritual Roots Assessment Ceremony. Cast aside by her family, she is exiled to a bitterly cold mine to live or die on her own.
Ten years of hardship cannot cool a fervent heart. Deep in the lightless mines, she stumbles upon an ancient fragment containing supreme sword intent. In a dream, she witnesses a sword cleaving the heavens and tearing apart the firmament, a sight that shakes the world! “My fate is mine to command, not Heaven’s!” A conviction blazes in her heart like a raging fire.
No spiritual roots, and no way to draw in qi and cultivate immortality? Then she will use her mortal body, temper her will into fire and hammer her physique into steel, forging a path of her own through the depths of despair: the Sword Essence Path!
From gripping a mining pick and narrowly slaying a demonic beast, to surviving a plot against her and killing the steward in a desperate counterattack; from struggling to survive as a wanderer, to knocking on the gates of immortality despite having no spiritual roots and shaking the whole region... With the sword in her hand and a single unyielding thread of Heaven-Slaying Sword Intent within her, she cuts through every thorn and surges upstream!
Doubt from the sect, oppression by geniuses, pursuit by sworn enemies, rejection by the Heavenly Dao... No matter how many obstacles lie ahead, one sword will settle them all!
“If Heaven has no justice, then I’ll carve out a new path!”
See how an orphaned girl of mortal birth wields her sword to battle in every direction, break through myriad laws, and prove her own Dao, until at last she points her blade at the heavens and vows to slay the Heavenly Dao!
This is a lonely path of slaying Heaven, one that ends only in death, and a passionate legend about an unyielding soul.
I’m a new author, so please don’t be too harsh if it’s not to your taste. When I first started writing, I wasn’t very good at managing the pacing, so the early chapters move rather quickly. I hope you’ll share your valuable feedback. Thank you.
