“Blood-Red Dawn, Mortals Slay the Gods”
Lin Yun, a village boy from Qingzhou, witnesses his parents being tortured to death by the Celestial Palace’s divine guards on the night his family is wiped out. At the brink of death, he awakens the forbidden ocular art known as the Star-Gazing Eye. His left eye peers into the secrets of heaven, while his right burns through his allotted lifespan. To avenge his parents, he takes up a broken compass left behind by a black-robed swordsman and enters the bloodiest proving ground in the cultivation world: the outer sect of Qinglan Sect.
There is no distinction between good and evil here, only a Heavenly Dao that devours people.
The phoenix totem on the nape of Su Wanqing, the Medicine King Valley’s saintess; the blood-red crystal beneath the mask of the Celestial Palace’s supreme god; the nine-headed giant serpent roaring in the ruins of an ancient battlefield... Every clue points to a buried truth: the so-called “ascension through cultivation” is nothing but a lie spun by the divine race to harvest the bloodlines of humanity.
When Lin Yun, a mere mortal, dares to take on a divine general of the Return to Oneness Realm, he discovers that his body suppresses a fragment of the Heavenly Dao Stele, which shattered when the first Human Emperor fell. This defiant battle against heaven is destined to turn into a river of blood. He will use his mortal body to shatter the divine race’s ten-thousand-year-old shackles, and the future glimpsed through his Heaven-Peering Eye to tear apart the so-called laws of the Heavenly Dao!
