“They call me the last remnant of the Eternal Night, so I’ll tear down this radiant Heavenly Dao!”
Chen Yan, an orphan bearing the Mark of Sin, went from an errand boy at a blacksmith’s shop to the public enemy of the cultivation world overnight. The black mark on his left hand lets him see the flaws in all things, while his right hand wields the long-lost Mountain-Splitting Axe of the Military School. At the sword stele on Mount Jiuyi, he awakens an ancient sword bone; in an illusion of the Azure Sea, he glimpses the truth of the era. When the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation of the seventy-two blessed grotto-heavens descends, the youth makes his body a scabbard and swallows three thousand bolts of thunder. Pointing his sword at the sky, he declares, “If this heavens would use the Mark of Sin to destroy the world, then with the Mark of Sin, I’ll open the gates of heaven!”
