[Heaven's Way gives fifty, yet derives forty-nine]
Han Yeyu, a young man working at a medicine shop in Qingshi Town, is drawn into a three-thousand-year-old Xuanhuang killing scheme by a strange stone bead covered in ancient forbidden sigils.
On the night the town is destroyed beneath blood-red banners, he glimpses through a crack in the bead:
The elder who teaches cultivation techniques in the highest heavens hides a demonic talisman in his sleeve. The spirit nurtured inside an ancient sword case murmurs its former master's name. Even the natal flying sword he has painstakingly honed in his dantian day and night reveals blood-red markings beneath the full moon.
The road to cultivation is long, with a tribulation at every step.
From using his mystic eyes to see through the falsehood of spirit veins, to pointing his sword at the sky amid the Devouring Weapon Tribulation;
from a thousand-year-old corpse pill in a fog-shrouded swamp, to a bronze mirror of karma atop the Heaven-Piercing Tower.
Han Yeyu gradually discovers that what is called the
