Lu Chen bears the fabled Void Spirit Root, absorbing spiritual energy from thousands of miles around like a whale, yet retaining not a drop, like trying to carry water in a bamboo basket.
Once heaven's favored son, he becomes an outcast. On his wedding day, he is publicly divorced, stripped of his finery, and thrown into a mass grave.
As he lies dying, he touches an ancient, deep-blue ring. Inside dwells the remnant soul of an unparalleled being: "I'll borrow your body. In return, I'll help you ascend to the heavens!"
The remnant soul freezes his Golden Core with a single finger, but the System starts sounding frantic alarms: [World-ending parasitic entity! Threat: the annihilation of all heavens!]
To survive, he takes the perilous path of the Swordbone: refining the bones of countless demons into a sword grave, and using his own body as the furnace.
Each bone he refines grants him a demon's talent. He fuses an earth dragon into his right palm, tempers his left shin with a wind wolf, and forges his spine with a thunder jiao...
When he becomes the sword itself, cuts down every enemy, and stands proudly atop the immortal peak, he sets out to forge an immortal body for the soul inside the ring.
The System erupts in a blood-red flash: [Warning!] She lowers her eyes and smiles. "Little one, that swordbone you've fattened up... it's time to return it to its sheath."
