Chu Ye Han, a menial disciple of the Qinglan Sect, discovers a black-iron chain at the bottom of a cold pool, engraved with his birth date. Sixteen seals run through his qi sea, and nine layers of restrictions suppress his bloodline.
When he channels the Nine Heavens Tribulation to break the first shackle, golden dragon pupils illuminate the mountains and rivers. The forbidden ground behind the mountain splits apart, shattering three thousand black-iron pillars and revealing a bronze coffin covered in god-slaying incantations.
The nine-tailed celestial fox inside the coffin laughs like a bell: “Young master, do you know these eyes once made an Immortal Emperor kneel and bleed?”
From then on, Chu Ye Han’s path to enlightenment is drenched in the blood of the heavens:
With a mortal body and sword in hand, he comprehends the Nine Tribulations of Defying Fate in a ten-thousand-year-old ice cavern. His meridians shatter one by one as thunder and fire temper his bones, yet he glimpses a rift in the Heavenly Way.
With dragon eyes that see through the heavens, fragments of memories surface in his sea of consciousness: the ancient Dragon Emperor and the Nine Saints fighting to the death. Only then does he learn that his body seals a forbidden power capable of slaying immortals and gods.
Caught in the flames of romantic tribulations, the Ice Phoenix Saintess freezes a thousand miles to burn away her bloodline for him; the young diviner of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion willingly falls into the netherworld to alter his fate; and the nine-tailed celestial fox breaks off her tail to forge a blade and cut through the god-slaying shackles.
When Chu Ye Han tears away the final seal, blood rains down from the Ninefold Heavens, and beings suppressed for countless ages open their eyes among the stars:
“Azure Dragon has returned to its place. It’s time to settle the debt.”
