One Fall, and Chaos Began

One Fall, Chaos Opens: A Mortal’s Path to Victory!

Synopsis

Lin Fan, an orphan raised by an apothecary, had been stuck at the first level of Qi Refining for three years. He was the laughingstock of the town’s cultivators. Then, on a trip to gather herbs in the mountains behind town, a green-striped wolf slashed his chest with its claws, and the jade pendant his father left him suddenly grew hot. In the space of a breath, the bottleneck that had trapped him for three years shattered. He shot straight to the third level of Qi Refining, and just as he killed a demon beast with one punch, Steward Wang of the Qingyun Sect happened to pass by and took him on the spot as an outer-sect disciple.

Only after joining the sect did he learn that a genius without connections was a sitting duck. Qin Hao, the nephew of an outer-sect manager, targeted him, stealing his pills and trying to kill him during a tournament. But the jade pendant always came through in a crisis: it absorbed spiritual energy to help Lin Fan break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining and turn the tables, then led him to a fragmentary copy of the Burning Heaven Art in the Blackwind Valley secret realm. That very night, he restored half the text and learned to conjure a flame. He still had not figured out the meaning of the words in his father’s letter, “When the jade pendant falls, chaos emerges,” when the Six Nations Tournament began.

Qin Hao joined forces with the Heavenly Demon Sect and secretly unleashed a Spirit-Devouring Gu to drain Lin Fan’s spiritual power. Instead, the jade pendant devoured the Gu’s power, throwing Qin Hao’s spiritual energy into chaos. Clutching the Heavenly Demon Token that had fallen from Qin Hao, Lin Fan, at the early Golden Core stage, withstood three attacks from a mid-stage Nascent Soul expert. When he unleashed his Burning Heaven Palm, the entire arena fell silent. But just after Elder Mo of the Heavenly Demon Sect said, “The Spirit Realm has had its eye on that jade pendant for a long time,” while trying to silence him, the pendant smashed open Qingyun Mountain, splitting it to reveal a glowing rift into a secret realm of the Spirit Realm. Lin Fan told Su Yue and Zhao Xiaosheng only, “Wait for me to come back,” then turned and stepped into the rift. The jade pendant hummed incessantly in the darkness. The mortal realm’s rise had just come to an end, and the prelude to chaos had only begun.