Beneath the holy radiance, someone is stealing the lifeblood of the entire world.
Two thousand years ago, the three supreme deities of "Light," "Darkness," and "Reincarnation" descended upon the world, spreading their faith and establishing a holy church that enveloped all creation. The Pontiff ruled, the divine throne stood high above, and archbishops guarded the four corners of the world. Countless living beings basked in divine grace, and order prevailed.
Yet behind this supreme glory lay a suffocating truth: the three "deities" were not of this world, but failures from a higher dimension! Some had lost in their struggles, others had been exiled and cast adrift, until at last they were imprisoned in this realm. The magnificent church was nothing more than a cage and tool they had carefully fashioned.
A thousand years ago, the Daoist sect emerged.
A thousand years of struggle, with light and shadow intertwined. The church remained high above, drawing upon the world's source in the name of faith, while the Daoist sect quietly gathered strength in the shadows, searching for the faintest chance to slay the gods.
The wheels of fate began to turn around a young man named Lin Jin. He possessed the perfect "vessel" constitution, though even he had yet to realize it, and gained the core inheritance of the Daoist sect: The Art of Illuminating the Self and Slaying the Dao. Along with Yun Li, pure as light, and Shi Zheng, whose will was like iron, he entered the Hall of Sacred Light. There, within the holy sanctuary, he studied the church's secret arts, unaware that he was taking one step after another toward the heart of the storm.
When a perfect body practices the art of god-slaying and is brought before the gods... will he become the perfect sacrifice for a god's return? Or the blade that slays the false gods?
The life-stealers sit high upon the divine altar, while those who would slay the Dao move unseen through the night. This is an ultimate showdown with the world as its game board and all living beings as the stakes. Where will the invisible sword Lin Jin has nurtured beneath the holy light finally point?
