Chen Feng, a young man on Blue Star with no money, no power, and no prospects, witnesses the Nine Stars Aligning on Mount Tai. But an accident sends him plunging off a cliff, and his soul transmigrates into the body of a boy in the remote village of Chiya, in the Eastern Wilderness of the Xuanqing Continent.
In this life, he is no longer an orphan with no one to rely on. The presence of his parents gives him a warmth he has never known. But when he is eight, two Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators slaughter the village, crushing everything. A raging fire consumes the entire settlement, leaving not a single one of its hundred households alive.
Returning from a deep sleep in the mountains, Chen Feng finds only a sky full of flames and ruins reduced to scorched earth. His eyes are wide with terror, his pupils contracted by unbearable fear and grief, yet not a single tear will fall. The corners of his mouth twitch uncontrollably, twisting into a smile that is not a smile. He looks like a puppet stripped of its soul, its numb shell left standing rigid in place. Despair clings to him like a bone-deep disease, gnawing at his reason. Grief turns into a soundless scream that explodes in his chest, leaving only a broken, wheezing rasp in his throat.
That day, the last wisp of cooking smoke from Chiya Village died away, and Chen Feng's world collapsed completely.
Amid the ruins, the boy wipes away the tears streaked with soot. The last trace of warmth fades from his eyes, leaving only frozen hatred and resolve.
From that day on, the Xuanqing Continent loses an innocent child and gains a lone figure who has embarked on the path of cultivation for revenge. Under the name Chen Feng, he will temper himself in blood and fire and press onward, step by step, against the lofty demonic cultivators and the cruel world itself.
