This is a world where the Dao has been exhausted.
Thirty thousand years ago, the last Heavenly Emperor, Xuan Shang, failed to attain the Dao beyond the heavens. His body shattered into billions of fragments, scattered throughout the Myriad Worlds.
From then on, the laws of heaven and earth were reversed.
Mortals no longer cultivated by “comprehending the Dao” or “merging with the Dao,” but by “severing the Dao.”
To sever the Dao is not to cut down one’s enemies, but oneself.
From birth, countless “innate laws of the Dao” grow within every person, intertwining and devouring one another. These laws determine your talents, your fate, even the way you will die. Cultivation means severing, refining, and reshaping these chaotic laws one by one, until you open a “Heavenly Dao of Chaos” unique to yourself within your body and claim the title of Heavenly Emperor.
The Dao is no longer a gift, but a shackle.
The more ruthlessly you sever it, the wider your path to survival.
At the end, you might sever all seven emotions and six desires, or you might carve out a version of yourself the world has never seen.
