Chen Mo, the disgraced young clan master, possesses the extraordinary ability to "Myriad Forms Deduction," which lets him see through and deduce all things. Yet his clan uncle, Chen Li, crippled his meridians and cast him into a broken-down courtyard to fight for scraps with the lowest of the low.
His personal maid, Xiao Man, shielded him with her life, taking a lethal beating in his place. The mysterious old servant, Uncle Zhong, secretly guided him to dig a life-saving demon herb out of the filthy swamp of the beast pen.
When the black jade ring left behind by his father awakened, three marks burned into his soul: "despair, defiance, and protection." They revealed Chen Li's plot to collude with the Tianyan Pavilion, murder his elder brother, and seize power.
To cure the marrow-corroding poison, Chen Mo risked his life by sneaking into the forbidden grounds of the herb garden at night. He swallowed a Dragonblood Grass to cleanse his marrow and remake his bones, and faint golden patterns appeared on his meridians, but this drew the Tianyan Pavilion's deadly trap!
At the darkest hour, he clenched the bloodstained Basic Body Tempering Manual. On the tournament stage, he used a mortal-grade martial art to crush the pride of the young prodigies:
"The mud you trampled is the abyss where I lay in wait!"
The hidden dragon stirs the heavens, blood stains the stars as I defy the sky!
A dragon trapped in shallow waters will not linger long; hardship and adversity are but a vessel. With dreams as sails and diligence as oars, we will bravely forge ahead, breaking through the waves, and one day soar through the clouds to illuminate the land.