The World Betrayed Me, So I'll Prove My Dao Through Slaughter

The five regions of the Xuan Cang Realm stand side by side. Martial arts flourish, but the rules have crumbled, and the survival of the fittest remains unchanging law. Ye Chen, the chief disciple of Qingyun Sect, the foremost orthodox sect, is a cultivation prodigy unseen in a century, with a boundless future ahead of him. But his senior brother Lin Feng and Third Elder Zhao Tianxiong conspire with the demonic Blood Soul Cult to betray him, and more than three thousand members of the sect are slaughtered. At the brink of death, his master uses his own life essence to protect Ye Chen’s remnant soul, which escapes into the forbidden Ten Thousand Corpse Cavern. There, a forbidden art fuses it with an ancient sacred bone of the Killing Dao, forging the Slaughter Dao Physique. His master leaves behind the Myriad Slaughters True Scripture.

With his path to immortality severed, Ye Chen awakens to the Killing Dao amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, vowing to prove the Dao through slaughter and repay blood with blood! Killing lets him absorb cultivation, condense killing souls, and forge his Dao foundation. Though he suffers the backlash of Heaven’s Will and is hunted by all races, he rises step by step along a path of killing disciples, masters, and kings. He is invincible among those of his rank and can slay those of higher ranks.

On his path of revenge, he encounters Su Qingyao, an undercover agent from the Immortal Domain. She was ordered to investigate the forbidden Killing Dao, but through their repeated clashes and her secret assistance, she comes to see that Ye Chen kills the wicked, not the innocent. Her suspicion and wariness give way to fighting by his side. Together, they infiltrate the ruins of the old Qingyun Sect, hunt down traitors, expose conspiracies, and set the five regions into turmoil.

From the “Slaughtering Ghost Mask” who returns from the Ten Thousand Corpse Cavern to the Killing Dao Sovereign who shakes the Three Realms, Ye Chen cleaves through hypocrisy with a thousand souls, suppresses the prisons of the world with ten thousand corpses, and uses killing to end killing and protect all living beings. Facing the orthodox factions’ siege, the demonic path’s covetousness, and the shackles of Heaven’s Will, he and Su Qingyao brave one trial after another, unlock the secrets of the Killing Dao Order, and battle the fiends beyond the realms. In the end, he breaks the shackles of the rules and becomes the Slaughter Dao Ancestor, acclaimed across all worlds, forging a blazing legend: “If Heaven’s Will is unjust, I’ll cut it down. If the myriad worlds refuse to submit, I’ll slaughter them all!”