The divide between immortals and mortals is as vast as a heavenly chasm. Mo Chen is nothing more than a lowly herb gatherer beneath Yun Yin Mountain, with a life worth less than grass!
One night, he stumbled into a cultivator’s hunting ground. A demonic beast’s claws tore through his mortal body, while the immortal masters looked on coldly, indifferent to life and death. On the verge of dying, his ancestral cracked jade pendant, the “Rot-Eater Pendant,” suddenly awakened! A strange force erupted, greedily devouring the demonic beast’s deathly aura and Mo Chen’s own blood. The pendant pulsed, returning a trace of chaotic spiritual energy, meager yet powerful enough to defy fate, like a ghostly flame igniting his doomed destiny.
This wicked pendant, which feeds on “decay,” became the only blade with which mortal-born Mo Chen could pierce the darkness. In the cultivation world, the ranks are as insurmountable as the heavens. Sect magnates look down from above, while prodigies blaze with glory. He has no one to rely on, only the faint light he has wrung from decay!
From risking his life in the lowly market districts, fighting to survive between paltry profits and deadly traps, to treading carefully through political schemes and searching for a path to the heavens amid the cracks between powerful magnates; from the bloody infighting among sects to battling prodigies and magnates for treasures in secret realms...
Every step Mo Chen takes is over corpses, and every breath brings him to the brink of life and death. He uses humility as a shield and cunning as a spear. And with the sinister power of the Rot-Eater Pendant, he devours all that decays, turning destruction into life and decay into a stairway to immortality!
When the pressure of the nine heavens bears down upon the world, this blood-soaked path of defiance, which began in the dust, will be etched into the world by a mortal body: an undying legend!
