The Ancient Scroll of the Eclipsed Sun

Immortality is a curse. The path to becoming an immortal is a trap.

This is an age when the civilization of cultivation flourishes. Everyone seeks to transcend mortality and become an immortal, yearning for eternal life.

Yet no one knows that every technique, pill, secret realm, and even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has long been tainted by an invisible “Eldritch corruption.” The faster you cultivate and the deeper your mastery, the farther you drift from being human and the closer you come to becoming something else. At the end of the radiant path to immortality lies not carefree eternal life, but transformation into an indescribable horror.

Lu Zhao is a low-born branch-family member with poor aptitude, on the verge of being abandoned by his clan. In his moment of despair, he accidentally awakened the ancestral blank scroll.

Blood-red characters appeared on the scroll, pointing him toward the one and only “way to survive”: cultivate the incomplete, uncanny, curse-like Remnant Stele Heart-Guarding Sutra. Cultivate it, and your Dao foundation will remain incomplete, your future cut short. Refuse, and within three days you will become “meat for the feast,” devoured by your own blood kin.

Thanks to this ancient scroll, whose uncanny annotations appear before his eyes, Lu Zhao glimpses a terrifying corner of the world: perhaps the highly respected elders have already sacrificed their eyes to beings of the void; the price of cultivating supreme techniques surrounded by celestial energy may be the gradual loss of every emotion; and beneath the glow of the sect’s protective formation, something lies sealed away, its madness beyond even its own comprehension...

He has no choice but to struggle onward along an immortal path riddled with thorns and curses. Every step forces him to choose between reason and power: endure inhuman torment and cultivate forbidden arts for a slim chance of survival, or blend into the “normal” world of cultivation and unknowingly pay a horrific price, becoming a monster. On this corrupted path to immortality, every breakthrough makes me a little more monstrous.

But if this is the price I must pay to glimpse the truth...

I will let my body consume the sun and challenge the heavens for answers!