Mortals gaze at the heavens, fighting to survive in desperate straits; Yuanshi bows his head and defies heaven for love.
On the night the sects of the lower realm were wiped out, Lin Yuan, a young man of mediocre talent, awakened the Guixu Sacred Blood within the “Starlight Jade Pendant” his mother had left behind. From then on, he embarked on a cursed path of cultivation. He had once trembled with his sword in hand as his beloved betrayed him, once seen his Dao heart shatter before the annihilation of billions, and once walked his own path alone among the leaders of three sects, all for the sake of finding “a fourth possibility.”
When the truth of the universe tore faith apart, he learned that the Dao resonance generated by the cultivation of all races was nothing but an offering to feed the resurrection of the Sacred Clan, and that the cataclysm resetting everything after twelve epochs was actually a sacrificial ritual whose outcome had long been written. Shi Shang urged him to merge with the universe and delay the end. Xuanyuan Wen advised him to lead the elite away and preserve the spark of life. Jiemie tempted him to offer himself willingly in exchange for a promise.
Lin Yuan rejected every plan. With Xing Li giving her life to protect him, he attained the Dao of Yuanshi. But at the edge of the universe’s end, he had already reached the summit when he bent down to retrieve a fragment of a soul, damaging his own source in the process. An “ontological logic fracture” would remain in his chest forever.
From then on, an eternal storyteller appeared in the void. Holding a glimmer of light, he opened The Guixu Chronicles, a book formed from the crystallized remains of the old universe, and sang its tale forever beneath the stars of the new world:
“Is Yuanshi free of tribulation? No. Where there is love, there is tribulation.”
“And this tribulation, I welcome with all my heart.”
