He Who Devours the Heavens

In the Ye family of Qingzhou, the illegitimate son Ye Wuwang was cast aside for his “spirit-devouring ruined meridians.” As he plunged into the Mass Grave Abyss, he swallowed an ancient spirit-devouring vine and awakened the Origin of Devouring. Agonizing pain followed him like a shadow, yet in his darkest hour it gave him a chance to seize the blade that could defy fate: he could devour spiritual energy, seize bloodlines, and assimilate cultivation arts, but he also bore the curse of backlash from spirit-devouring.

During the years he was taken in by an old apothecary from the Hundred Herbs Hall, the mute girl Su Qingyue used her vital essence to suppress his demonic nature, and a blood-bound bond quietly took root amid the chaos. To save his beloved, he entered the Falling Star Sect’s trial, but an assassination exposed his identity. His vendetta against the Poison Dragon Gang became the Poison Dragon Art, which he developed by devouring its members. He infiltrated the Azure Cloud Sect in disguise, only to be framed; while on the run, he instead seized the secrets of the formation arts from an enforcement disciple. Deep beneath the Netherworld Abyss, the ruins of an ancient Spirit-Devouring Hall opened up a second stage of devouring: the forbidden power to strip away spiritual roots.

When Su Qingyue was abducted by the Profound Yin Sect, Ye Wuwang tore through the sect’s authority with his spirit-devouring domain. He founded the Heaven-Devouring Pavilion and stirred up the underground black market, devoured the Heavenly Phoenix and Torch Dragon to fuse their variant bloodlines, and snatched the Primordial Chaos Green Lotus at the Tianyuan Auction, unleashing a storm of bloodshed. He crushed the Pill King Valley in a contest of alchemy, sent his puppet army to flatten the Mechanism City, and subdued the remnant soul of a time-space beast in an ancient secret realm. Wielding devouring as his sword, he shattered the shackles imposed by the four great clans, then turned the tide and killed the formation’s core amid the siege by three major sects.

In a sea of tribulation lightning sent down by the Heavenly Dao, he devoured the origin of heavenly thunder. When the foreign Heaven-Devouring Clan invaded, the founder’s bloodline became nourishment instead. Su Qingyue awakened the Profound Yin Heaven-Devouring Art, and together they forged a domain of devouring. Then the truth came to light: Ye Wuwang was the reincarnation of the ancient Spirit-Devouring God, and in each of his nine cycles of reincarnation, the Heavenly Dao had erased him for his power to devour.