On the Eastern Profound Continent of the Firmament, a boy named Di Xiao was born on a night when the blood moon hung in the sky. Forbidden bloodline flowed through his spine, enough to make the Heavenly Dao tremble.
In the training grounds of Qinglan City, shrouded in peach-blossom miasma, the fifteen-year-old wielded a peach branch as a blade. The roar of his sword energy shattering stone pierced the morning mist, yet could not break the shackles of the fifth level of Martial Apprentice. When the bloodstained purple dragon pendant engraved with “Heaven-Splitter” fell to the ground and a family ambush struck through the peach grove, he finally understood that every drop of his blood was a crime: the dragon-scale tattoo carved into his back before his father disappeared, the blood and tears that stained the cinnabar mole at the corner of his eye as his mother was dragged from their home, and the searing sulfurous flames on his clan brother Di Cheng’s python robe. All of them were tearing at the seal on the bloodline of the Imperial God.
The mournful cry of a broken blade awakened an ancient altar deep within the Panlong Mountains. Bearing the murder of his mother as his vendetta, the boy leapt beyond the city walls. On the run, scars left by falling thunder revealed fragments of memories from the Age of Godslaying. The jade pendant in his arms resonated with a broken bronze blade beneath the earth, guiding him toward Rebirth Cliff, where the bones of the first Imperial God lay buried.
As the rust-speckled blade light of “Heaven-Splitter” tore through the night, Di Xiao finally saw the truth:
The so-called inheritance of destiny was a ten-thousand-year game of chess in which the gods imprisoned all living beings;
And the Imperial God bloodline boiling in his spine
Was forging him into the final godslaying blade, destined to sever the prophecy of fate.
