Lin Chen, a young man from a mountain village, finds a seemingly ordinary fragment of stone beside Clear Creek. He has no idea that it is a Chaos Origin Seed that has lain dormant for ninety-seven thousand years.
In a single night, the veil is torn from the ordinary world before his eyes. He sees spiritual energy flowing, glimpses the origin of all things, and touches the long-lost Chaos Art deep within his mind.
But fortune comes hand in hand with calamity.
The boundary stele on the mountain behind his village suppresses a world gate on the verge of breaking. Blood-red meteors fall, the shadows of the Netherworld Cult stir, and infighting within the sect coils like poisonous vines.
Only then does Lin Chen learn that his Chaos Spiritual Root is no gift from Heaven, but an inheritance of karma passed down for hundreds of millions of years. He is the ninth Gatekeeper. In three years, otherworldly demons will arrive, and the fate of this realm rests on his shoulders alone.
From Clear Creek Village to the Qingyun Sect, from the outer sect tournament to bloody battles in secret realms, the youth raises his blade to Heaven and proves the Dao through chaos.
No one can teach him this path. No one can walk it for him.
Either he reaches the Nascent Soul Realm in three years, masters chaos, and guards Heaven's Gate,
or he dies, his Dao extinguished, and all things become food for bloodthirsty beasts.
Some paths, once chosen, have no way back.
