When the Primordial Era collapsed, the gods and demons planted nine bronze coffins in the life palaces of all living beings.
Three thousand years later, Ling Wuchen, a menial disciple of the Taixu Sword Sect, is nailed to the Pillar of Atonement. The instant a soul-devouring nail pierces his bone, a dragon's corpse roars awake deep beneath the earth. The sect's seventy-two peaks collapse with a crash, revealing the remains of a giant dragon pierced by ten thousand swords. On every reverse scale are engraved the birth date and time of the Taixu Sect Master.
At the bottom of the Dragonblood Pool, Ling Wuchen finds his own name.
The twenty-four vertebrae of his Dao Bones reveal a star map. As the giant bronze coffin in his life palace devours the dragon veins, he glimpses the filthiest truth: the so-called righteous sects are merely shepherd dogs used by the heavens to keep humanity penned in, while the so-called cultivators who ascend are all jailers guarding bronze coffins for the gods and demons.
When the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation unleashes Heaven's punishment, a dragon claw reaching out from the coffin crushes half the flesh on his body:
"Use the sinful veins as your guide, and you can bury the heavens."
From then on, he grips the Heaven-Burying Sword and carves marks onto the coffins of the heavens:
At the end of the Yellow Springs, he carves reincarnation, and the tears of his senior sister, who guarded a coffin in her past life, emerge upon the Three Lives Stone;
Atop the Primordial Tower, he carves the stars, illuminating the tenth tribulation star of the life palace that was erased;
Finally, he carves his own Dao Bones into the altar of the gods and demons, and the twenty-four vertebrae of his spine become chains that sever the ages...
At last, a corner of this deception spanning thirty-three eras is revealed:
What is imprisoned in the depths of the life palace, the gods and demons, or another version of himself?
What lies buried in the bronze coffins, fate, or the ambition of all living beings to strike back against the heavens?
On the bloodstained book of fate, only eight characters remain as a prophecy:
Use the coffin as a vessel, and cross every tribulation
