Condense profound dust into a core, use dust arts to determine life and death. The survival of the fittest is an iron law that has remained unchanged since ancient times.
Ling Chen, a good-for-nothing from a tiny barbarian clan, is scorned by his people because his dust core is incomplete. Only the young woman Su Qingyuan offers him a glimmer of light. A catastrophe wipes out his clan, and his beloved is abducted. He falls into the abyss, obtains an ancient inheritance, tempers his broken body with supreme dust arts, and vows to search all nine heavens to save the one thing he cannot let go of.
From then on, he wields the Heaven-Burning Dust Fist, braves secret realms, battles savage beasts, and fights peerless prodigies, rising step by step through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He meets Mo Fan, a formation prodigy; Shi Meng, a physical powerhouse; and Lin Xiaowan, a saintly healer. Bound to them by life and death, he forms the Reverse Dust Alliance. From the eastern wilderness to the heart of Zhongzhou, from sect rivalries to battling the extraterrestrial Dust-Devouring Evil Clan, they overcome every obstacle through their bonds and defy fate with pure hearts.
As the years pass, he lies low to protect those he loves, risks his life for loyalty, parts ways with his companions over their beliefs, and resonates with his beloved across the distance at death's door. When the Dust-Devouring Emperor breaks free of its seal and the continent is reduced to scorched earth, he uses his dust core as a guide, gathers the dust artifacts of the five domains, and leads his companions into battle. With a mortal body, he stands shoulder to shoulder with the gods, composing a profound-dust epic of perseverance, bonds, love, and redemption amid destruction and rebirth.
"If this world stands in the way of my finding her, I'll shatter it. If these laws imprison my companions, I'll defy them!" - Ling Chen
