At the end of the Primordial Era, a Supreme Being who could reach the heavens pulled a fragment of the world's backbone from the depths of the Nine Hells and forged it into the Ancient Dust Sword. This sparked a war among the myriad races, shattering heaven and earth. The victors divided the shattered world, established supreme sects and primordial divine clans, and set down the Heavenly Laws, enslaving all living beings through bloodlines and resources to maintain their rule. Eons later, the Tian Nan Ling Clan, the strongest vassal of the Abyss Ruins Divine Clan, rulers of the primordial divine clans who claimed dominion over the Heavenly Laws, was wiped out overnight. Its young lord, Ling Hao, had his cultivation crippled and his bloodline stripped before being cast into the forbidden wasteland of the lower realm, the Sinful Dust Abyss. Everyone believed the divine clan had grown suspicious of its vassal and ordered a purge. Yet no one knew that this cataclysmic slaughter was in truth an epoch-spanning gambit between the Ling Clan's sword-spirit patriarch and the Abyss Ruins Divine Clan. He had made his entire clan a pawn and himself a prisoner, all to lay a stunning trap. His sole aim was for Ling Hao, bearer of the Ancient Dust Sword and the Sinful Bloodline, to rise from the lowliest dust, wield the Heaven-Sealing Blade, and shatter the rotten Heavenly Laws, asking just one question: What gives you the right to be born above everyone else?
