Black rain fell from the sky, and the demon towers collapsed. The once-peaceful land of the Nine Provinces plunged into catastrophe overnight. Countless demon beasts surged out of the darkness, tearing through the human world as the flame of civilization flickered on the verge of extinction.
Lu Ming, a blacksmith's apprentice from a remote border town, found only two things in the ruins of his destroyed home: his orphaned little sister and an ancient hide scroll, a secret inheritance of his master's sect called the Myriad Refinements Treasure Manual. The scroll contained not only methods for forging divine weapons, but also a bizarre path of cultivation: using flesh and blood as the mold and mystical energy as the flame to temper one's own body.
Carrying his hatred and a faint glimmer of hope, the young man hoisted his sister onto his back, gripped the tattered scroll, and ventured into the shattered Nine Provinces. Ahead lay demon hordes, driven mad by persecution despite having coexisted with humanity; human schemers exploiting the catastrophe to pursue their own power; and an ancient Demon Emperor lurking in the abyss, watching as he sought to return to the mortal world.
Lu Ming wielded his hammer as a pen and blood as ink, forging weapons amid the flames of war and tempering himself in the face of despair. He came from the ruins, crossed mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and rose step by step from an ordinary blacksmith into a powerhouse capable of shaking the balance of the Nine Provinces. At first, all he wanted was a place to call home and the safety of his sister. But in the end, he had no choice but to confront the most fundamental questions of this world: Where do the boundaries lie between humanity and the demon race, hatred and coexistence, destruction and redemption?
This is a grand fantasy wuxia epic about a young man who follows the Way with a craftsman's heart and reforges the order of the world amid an apocalyptic cataclysm.
Wonderful!