As demons slaughter the world and the Lingxiao Fortress crumbles, Fang Heng, a first-rate sword cultivator, has his sword soul crushed by the Demon Lord of Destruction and dies with hatred in his heart.
When he opens his eyes again, he has returned to the year 3725 of the Xuan Era, five years before the cultivation game Xuan Realm launches and eight years before the demons sweep across both realms! But now, he isn’t the renowned sword cultivator he once was. He’s merely a mortal miner in the Blood Soul Sect’s spirit-mine, beaten and bullied at will.
The bitter toil of the mines, the overseers’ brutality, and the miners’ despair awaken the painful memories of his ten years in his previous life: his cultivation partner’s Nascent Soul devoured, his life-bound flying sword shattered, and all life in both realms turned into food for the demons... This time, he clenches his calloused fists and vows to turn every tragedy around!
Armed with the “script” for the next eight years, he knows the demons’ fatal weaknesses, the coordinates of hidden secret realms, and that the players of Xuan Realm will be his greatest allies against them. While other cultivators still follow their usual training routines, Fang Heng has already taken the fast track: “grind monsters and level up + plan for the future + reap the players.”
