The Light of the Dao That Questions the Heart

(The gears of fate begin to turn backward. When the Exquisite Nine-Orifice Heart returns to the world, the shattered firmament will see the first glimmer of a new era.)

In the Age of Declining Dharma, when spiritual energy has run dry, the cultivation world has become an arena where the strong prey on the weak. The young Li Xiaobai is expelled from his sect because of his "Severed Meridians Physique," but on a stormy night, he stumbles into an ancient forbidden zone. On the battlefield behind a colossal bronze gate, he inherits the legacy of the world-defying divine artifact, the Void Sword Mound. Twelve chains of the Heavenly Dao pierce his body, engraving the Nine Revolutions Chaos Art deep into his soul.

(As forbidden power awakens in his blood, his left eye turns gilded gold and his right eye ink-black. The mysterious bird mark between his brows answers the ninefold heavenly palace from afar. Returning to the mortal world with the mission of reshaping heaven and earth, Li Xiaobai discovers that the sword scar that gravely wounded him years ago seals the remnant soul of an ancient God of War.)

Every breakthrough in his cultivation draws heavenly punishment, and every transformation brings a trial of life and death. When he holds an icicle to his enemy's throat, he realizes that his true foe is the long-rotten cultivation system. Even more shocking, the woman in white who repeatedly appears in his dreams is the enforcer of the Heavenly Dao who personally sealed him a thousand years ago.

(A broken jade token pieces together a shocking secret: Li Xiaobai was originally the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, formed from Pangu's left eye, but he violated the laws of heaven by falling in love with a mortal. At the blood-moon altar in the ancient forbidden zone, he must make the ultimate choice: reclaim control of the Heavenly Dao and become a new tyrant, or make himself a sword and cut apart the cycle of fate?)

This is an epic of betrayal and redemption, a legend of defying fate. When Li Xiaobai points his sword at the firmament, the crack in the ninefold heavenly palace reveals a truth that has never been recorded: all those who cultivate immortality