Beneath the abyss, even mortal bones can slay Heaven.
When Chen Feng dragged his broken body out from the bottom of Soulbreak Cliff, he had only one obsession: to save his wife, Lin Qingxue, who had been made a sacrificial offering.
He practiced the forbidden Spirit Devouring Art, swallowing nether fiends and tempering his skin to bronze, unaware that the remnant soul of the ancient Demon Venerable Mo Yuan was growing within him.
When he used a Nine-Orifice Mystic Pill to knock on the gates of immortality, what he saw was his wife’s frozen face inside the Profound Yin Ice Formation. And the mastermind behind it all was none other than the rules of Heaven’s Dao, revered as the ultimate standard by the cultivation world.
Beauty burns to ash; the sword cleaves through.
Mu Yanqing, Palace Master of the Li Huo Palace, burned away her primordial spirit for him. Xuan Su of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion offered her life in a blood sacrifice upon her divination board. One after another, five women who loved him dearly perished on the path to the Dao, leaving five bloody marks on the Tribulation Abyss Sword in his hand.
Each crack was Heaven’s Dao mocking him:
(The word “love” is nothing but a shackle.)
At the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, Chen Feng tightened his grip on the scarred sword.
Behind him, Mo Yuan’s remnant soul whispered of seizing his body. Before him lay the last chance to reshape his Chaos spirit body.
He severed karma and shattered Heaven’s Dao’s shackles, but at the end, his cultivation as a Primordial Golden Immortal dissipated completely.
At the foot of Soulbreak Cliff, he erected a blank tombstone. Beneath it lay the broken Tribulation Abyss Sword and a bloodstained hairpin.
A new rule of Heaven’s Dao emerged on the tombstone:
(Those who share a lifespan with their Dao companions may overcome the tribulation of love and ascend to Heaven.)
