[Political Intrigue and Twists x Traditional Xianxia x An Imagination-Packed Story]
A mere ant looks up at the heavens and sees all living beings treated like dogs.
Mu Yuan was born without a destiny, but on the brink of death he awakened the "Abyssal Eye." His left eye sees the cause and effect of fate, while his right burns away the shackles of the Heavenly Dao. He sees that:
The bottom of the spoon in Meng Po's hand bears the birth date of the Queen Mother of the West.
Three thousand dragon heirs who died young are curled up within the hanging beads of the emperor's crown.
And the beating of his own heart is the most crucial weight on a bronze scale.
The thief of fate becomes the fire of calamity.
When Mu Yuan swallows the Crown Prince's Ziwei destiny, golden seal-script blood markings appear behind him. Every strand of fortune he steals brings Heaven's punishment to gnaw at his bones; every causal thread he cuts summons an even greater calamity. Then he discovers:
The "fallen star" that dropped into his left eye three years ago was a seed planted by Zheng Sanyan, the first thief of Heaven.
Lu Jiugge, the mad old beggar, is actually the true Mu prince who was sacrificed eighty years ago.
And Senior Sister Qingyi, who calls him junior brother, carries in her womb the "Womb of the Formless Calamity," which can overturn the Three Realms.
The bronze scales tip, and the Abyssal Dragon opens its eyes.
A bronze chest unearthed from a mass grave conceals a thousand years of blood debts owed by the Mu clan:
The mother plant of the life-devouring vine was nourished by three hundred thousand lives, and the glazed fruit it bore contains Mu Yuan's gouged-out left eye.
Fragments of the Book of Formless Weapons reveal that the Mu clan's ancestors long ago put a price on the fate of all living beings and sold it.
And beyond the bronze gates in the far north, the Formless Army waits to reap the final "Abyssal Dragon Calamity."
The cultivators of this world all say: Those who defy Heaven must die.
But they do not know...
Of Heaven's fifty paths, forty-nine are complete. The one that escaped
was always the one Heaven left for itself...
