Defying Heaven: A Mortal's Fated Bond

Born into poverty, Lin Feng enters the third-rate Qingyun Sect as an “outer laborer,” where he is bullied and exploited because of his false Five Element spiritual root. At death's door, he unexpectedly activates the ancestral “Dust Origin Stone,” an ancient treasure capable of absorbing scattered spiritual energy and repairing his foundation. It becomes the starting point of his defiance of fate. By day, he endures humiliation as a laborer; by night, he cultivates furiously with the Dust Origin Stone. In just three months, he reaches the third level of Qi Refining. At the outer-sect tournament, he crushes the provocateur Zhao Hu and stuns the entire sect with his rise from a good-for-nothing. He is promoted to the inner sect and receives the advanced cultivation technique Azure Wind Art. After entering the inner sect, Lin Feng is assigned to watch over the spiritual fields in Spirit Mist Valley, at the edge of the sect, where he discovers the ruins of an ancient cultivator. Using a Foundation Establishment Pill and Spirit-Devouring Ants from the ruins, he devises a trap to kill Elder Liu Chengfeng, a Foundation Establishment cultivator. He breaks through to Foundation Establishment with the help of a heart-demon formation, finally freeing himself from the sect's control. He then heads to Blackstone City and stirs up trouble, helps the Su family rise to power, and schemes to wipe out the Blood Fiend Hall. With his Golden Core cultivation, he becomes the city's honored guest, and his name resounds throughout the Eastern Continent. When he learns the truth behind his family's massacre, that the Xuan Yin Sect was responsible in its pursuit of fragments of the Dust Origin Stone, Lin Feng infiltrates the enemy camp and enters the Ancient Wilds. At the heart of the ancient domain, he joins forces with a Xuan Yin Sect elder whose conscience remains intact to kill the sect leader, Mo Tianchou. He absorbs a Nascent Soul Fruit and advances to the Nascent Soul stage, avenging his family while gaining the demonic cultivators' core technique, the Profound Yin True Scripture. In the end, he leads an alliance of rogue cultivators in challenging the Eastern Continent's top power, the Tianyan Sect. At the Myriad Immortals Assembly, his Deity Transformation cultivation allows him to proclaim the principle that “the Dao is not determined by Heaven,” making him the uncrowned king of the cultivation world. The Dust Origin Stone opens a passage to the Spirit Realm, and Lin Feng embarks on a path to defy the dust in a higher dimension, leaving behind the words, “Those who follow Heaven prosper,