Lord of Ten Thousand Ruins

[Synopsis]

In the Age of the Dharma's Decline, the Immortal Realm lies shattered and the Heavenly Dao is incomplete. Lu Chen, a useless young master trapped at the first level of the Meridian Opening Realm for eight years, struggles to survive amid his family's rejection and the world's ridicule. Then, when he falls into a deadly abyss, the stone pendant left by his mother suddenly awakens. An ancient consciousness guides him to glimpse the truth: he bears the bloodline of the long-extinct Ruin God Clan, eighty-one hidden meridians slumber within him, and he holds the Myriad Transformations Origin Ruins Scripture, a cultivation art capable of evolving all forms of power.

From then on, he excels in pill refining, crafting artifacts, formations, talismans, taming beasts, and appraising treasures. He forges his own understanding of the cycles of flourishing and decay, the passage of time, chaos, and the five elements. From a remote border town to the battlefield of myriad races, from repairing his own body to redefining reincarnation, he faces every challenge. The Heavenly Dao is broken? Then he will make himself a ruin and open a universe of his own. This is the against-heaven epic of a young man in an apocalypse where order has collapsed: he subdues strange flames and divine beasts, befriends beloved companions, confronts the shadow of annihilation, and ultimately reopens the Great Dao and reigns supreme over all the ruins.