The Path to Emperorhood Begins in the Dust

Qin Chen and Ling Xi: two names that represent the most striking contrast in the Azure Wasteland Domain. The former is the young patriarch of the Qin family, yet damage to his spiritual meridians has reduced him to a good-for-nothing. He can barely draw qi into his body, and the family elders regard him as a discarded pawn. The latter is an ancient goddess who slept for a thousand years. After awakening with her memories gone, she accidentally became the little sidekick at Qin Chen’s side, though her fingertips conceal divine power capable of shaking heaven and earth.

A strange beast tide brought them together in the secret realm of their ancestral grounds. The heirloom Imperial Jade on Qin Chen’s chest suddenly grew hot, awakening the remnants of Ling Xi’s divine consciousness. Then, a drop of divine blood that Ling Xi accidentally spilled repaired Qin Chen’s damaged meridians. From then on, a mysterious girl of unknown identity stayed by the good-for-nothing young patriarch’s side. With the Imperial Jade, Qin Chen unlocked the "Emperor Dust Art", enduring searing pain in his meridians every time he broke through a level. Ling Xi guided his cultivation with fragments of her memories, yet she would wake in the dead of night, startled by nightmares of her clan’s annihilation.

Caught between infighting within the clan, powerful enemies from beyond the domain, and the emergence of ancient ruins along the path to becoming an emperor, the two were forced to join hands and turn the tables against all odds. When Qin Chen’s imperial meridians finally resonated completely with Ling Xi’s divine power, they unlocked the astonishing secret of the “Path to Emperorhood opening.” It turned out that Qin Chen’s “good-for-nothing constitution” was the only “dust foundation” capable of bearing the power of the Path to Emperorhood. The day the path begins in the tiniest mote of dust will be the day the two defy heaven and become gods!