A Mortal Defies Fate: Dual Cultivation in Alchemy and Martial Arts

A bloodstained bronze fragment seeping with blood at the edge of a cliff gives Lin Mo, the son of a herb farmer, a glimpse of the ultimate truths of heaven and earth.

Though born with blocked meridians, he can break down demon beasts into pills and decipher ancient fragments. From a storage pouch belonging to his pursuers, he even refines a blood-red jade pendant inscribed with “Xuantian Sect,” the very token that marks him for death in the eyes of the Spirit-Devouring Cult.

When a fallen fox demon curls up in his arms and whispers, “The Nine Heavens are about to collapse,” and a down-and-out sword cultivator stares at the fragment at his waist, trembling as he cries, “The Xuanhuang Cauldron,” Lin Mo finally realizes:

The “scrap metal” he picked up on a whim is one of the three sacred artifacts that sealed the ancient Spirit-Devouring Demon ten thousand years ago.

On his heaven-defying path of cultivating both alchemy and martial arts, he wields the cauldron in his left hand to refine the rarest treasures of the eight wastes, and grips a sword in his right to sever the ancient demon’s lifeline.

But none of the sect prodigies who have taken his pills, nor the ancient powers he has healed, know that three “Spirit-Devouring Demon Seeds” have always floated within the dantian of this gentle-smiling youth...