During the Qianlong era, Li Yan, a boy from Jiulong Village in western Fujian, made his living chopping wood. His family was poor, but he was steadfast by nature. After a violent storm, he stumbled upon a bronze wooden casket etched with bizarre patterns in a crevice between mountain rocks. When a drop of blood from his fingertip fell upon it, it awakened this treasure that had lain dormant for countless ages. From then on, a warm current nourished his body, a severed finger grew back, and his strength astonished the village. His ordinary life was transformed forever.
The casket guided him to absorb the mysterious energy of heaven and earth and embark on a path of cultivation, tempering his body and gathering qi. Hunted by the county authorities and rejected by sects, he relied on the prehistoric gene map within the casket and his own perseverance to establish his foundation in desperate circumstances and comprehend the Dao in the marketplace. He gradually became a prodigy who shook the cultivation world. But he discovered that Earth’s energy field was steadily weakening. Only by opening a passage to a higher-dimensional star domain, the Primordial World, could he break through the limits of cultivation.
The tribulation lightning tore through space, and Li Yan stepped into a land of chaos with the casket in hand. Here, spiritual energy swirled at ten thousand times its usual density, the three-legged Golden Crow hung high in the sky, the Wu were valiant, the demons cunning, and the Three Pure Ones established their teachings. As the Wu and demons battled for supremacy, ancient secrets and the truth about higher-dimensional civilizations were gradually revealed. It turned out that cultivation was, at its core, the evolution of genetic chains. The casket was actually a gene-awakening device left behind by the Pangu Clan, and the fate of the Primordial World was quietly becoming entwined with that of this ordinary boy from Earth.
From a village child to the lord of the Primordial World, Li Yan used his mortal body to challenge the Heavenly Dao and applied scientific thinking to unravel the mysteries of cultivation. Amid the tide of battles between immortals and gods, he forged a fiery legend that spanned the stars and turned the world upside down.
