The firmament collapses, and ages turn in an endless cycle. The secret behind the fall of the ancient Heavenly Court is bound to nine world-anchoring steles, each crumbling by the day. Another cycle is at hand. Spiritual energy wanes, strange omens multiply, and all living things tremble in fear, their days numbered.
A demonic sword emerges from Beiju Luzhou, its murderous aura piercing the skies and drawing the greatest powers of both the righteous and demonic paths to join forces in suppressing it. Yet the sword is no ordinary piece of iron. It is an ancient calamity weapon, sentient and choosing its own master. On that day, Su Jin, an orphan from the mortal world, is swept up in a twist of fate. The demonic sword tears through the sky, plunges into his chest, and binds itself to him. The righteous path brands him a demon and seeks to root him out; the demonic path hails him as destiny’s chosen one and forcibly draws him into its schemes.
From then on, the youth carries the cursed sword and steps into a world consumed by war. He tempers himself in demonic lairs and struggles to survive in a turbulent age, meeting a martial artist with double pupils, a blind immortal doctor, and a roguish Daoist… At times enemies, at times friends, they weather calamity together.
Will he resign himself to being a pawn, or wield his sword to break the game?
Will he prove the Way through destruction, or protect a glimmer of light amid the ruins?
This is a lament sung at the end of an age,
and the legend of a sword immortal cast down into the mortal world, who takes up his sword as a brush and writes the final page… which is also the first page… of this shattered land.
