A Mortal's Quest for the Dao: Defying Heaven to Change My Fate

After his spirit root is crippled and he is cast out by his family, Chu Yang is humiliated by his fiancée at his mother’s grave. But on a stormy night, he awakens the power to devour and uncovers the secret of the Coffin of Sky Burial. Clinging to the conviction that “I decide my own fate, not the heavens,” he rises from a crushed, insignificant ant and embarks on a path to defy destiny. He devours spirit roots, slays Golden Core cultivators, and withstands heavenly retribution, unleashing bloodshed across the cultivation world.

In a cycle of reincarnation spanning three thousand years, he is both the “Heaven-Slaying Sword Immortal” carefully nurtured by the Heavenly Dao and a reincarnator toyed with by fate. When he learns that the Heavenly Dao engineered the first two of his lives, Chu Yang resolutely shatters the Mirror of Reincarnation. Using a Chaos Spirit Root to devour the source of the laws, he reforges his Primordial Sword Body amid the Netherworld and the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation.

From fighting the three great sacred lands at the Dao-Seeking Assembly to severing the Heavenly Dao’s core in the Eye of the Ruins; from founding the Rebellious Dao to oppose destiny to becoming the new Heavenly Dao, then dispersing his power and transforming into Primordial Violet Qi, every step Chu Yang takes embodies the meaning of “a mortal seeking the Dao”: true eternity does not lie in becoming the Heavenly Dao, but in forever holding the courage to raise one’s sword against fate.

The story breaks the eternal cycle with its “Primordial Finale,” only to begin anew in a parallel world. A boy who has lost all his memories clutches half of a mysterious jade token and takes his first step into the morning light of the cultivation world…