His father left and never returned when he was five. His mother went mad and disappeared when he was eight. After enduring the clan's abuse, the boy Shang Tian was abandoned in the deadly Burial Soul Ridge. As he lay on the brink of death, the nameless compass his father had left him trembled in his arms, awakening the ancient Black Tortoise Ancestor, who had slept for ten thousand years!
A sigh awakened the Chaos Alchemical Heart dormant within him. A wisp of divine will passed down the lost Primordial Alchemy Scripture and the foundations of the five mystical arts. From then on, Shang Tian embarked on a heaven-defying path to prove the Dao through alchemy.
His pills can restore flesh to bare bones and bring the dead back to life (medicine), as well as divine fortune and misfortune and alter one's fate (destiny and divination). His fire can burn mountains and boil seas (geomancy), and see through the illusory nature of all things (physiognomy). Rising from obscurity, he comprehends the Dao between life and death, navigating the ancient alchemy sects and peerless powerhouses as he unravels one deadly alchemy plot after another.
Geomancy, medicine, destiny, physiognomy, and divination: the five arts fused in one crucible. Love, hate, gratitude, vengeance, and tribulation: all the flavors of life temper the heart. Behold how Shang Tian uses heaven and earth as his furnace and the myriad ways as kindling, forging an indestructible alchemical heart, commanding the fires of the Eight Wastes, and ultimately becoming an ancient Alchemy God, composing a sweeping legend of the Alchemy Emperor!
