Lower Realm Arc:
The Heavenly Dao is shattered, and the people suffer. Jiang Li, a young man consumed by the memory of his little sister freezing to death on a snowy night, is taken in by a reclusive sect. He turns his obsession into a sword, slashes the heavens and sunders the Dao, then joins Qin Wujiu, whose martial madness knows no bounds, in crushing imperial mausoleums and the tombs of demon kings. Cultivators mock him for trying to shake the heavens like an ant, while his master laughs that he can never escape his karma. But Jiang Li raises his sword against fate, burns through his lifespan with the bloodline of Heavenly Derivation, and carves a sliver of escape out of forty-nine layers of predetermined destiny. If reincarnation will not let her return, then he will offer all living beings as a sacrifice, trading them for a faint glimmer at the end of an endless night over these lands.
Heavenly Realm Arc:
Nine mysterious prisons hold the taboos of ages past in chains.
After ascending, Jiang Li is forced to become a “trainee jailer,” only to discover that the immortal markings on his right arm resonate with the legendary Heavenly Punishment Sword. Inside the nine prisons, time runs wild, space folds in on itself, and life is remade... Each prison conceals laws that overturn everything he knows. And the lofty Immortal Lord Mingxiao seems to have known he was coming all along.
“You are not the first to wield the sword,” the white-haired prophet whispers in the Prison of Time. “But you must be the last.”
The instant Jiang Li gathers all nine prison tokens and the Heavenly Punishment Sword fully awakens, the Chaos Cocoon begins to hatch, and the nine prisons are on the verge of collapse. Xue Qiannian uses her blood as a key, Mingxiao reveals his true form as the one who devoured eight generations of chief wardens, and Jiang Li must choose between becoming a new god and destroying the Heavenly Dao.
Those nine prisons have never held prisoners at all. They hold the Heavenly Dao itself.
Recommended by Shuhuang, it feels like a very mature book, but there is always a feeling that I can't explain it. The writing is also good. I am the first reader ~ I'll wait and see for the follow-up. It's definitely not the author's drag [please read carefully]