Reborn as an ordinary youth, Jiang Chen, the Heavenly Calamity Sword Venerable, discovers that every corner of the cultivation world he inhabits is shrouded in strangeness.
The laws of heaven and earth seem to have been tampered with, lineages have been severed, and history is riddled with self-contradictory gaps. Every step he takes toward the “Immortal Dao” brings a “heavenly punishment” close on his heels, as though the entire world is trying to stop him from reclaiming his true power.
As he explores ancient ruins and ventures into forbidden deathlands, Jiang Chen peels away layer after layer of mystery, until a chilling truth emerges: this world did not develop naturally. It is a “pasture” built to imprison all living beings and raise them like livestock. The supreme Heavenly Dao is the prison’s most merciless jailer.
The end of the once-promising road to immortality has long since become a trap. Ascension is nothing more than the fate of being harvested once “ripe.” And seated behind the scenes, raising all living things and wielding “order,” are several Immortal Emperors who betrayed the myriad heavens.
Standing at the edge of the world, Jiang Chen raises his sword.
“If the Heavenly Dao is a lock, then I’ll shatter it!”
“If the Immortal Emperors are jailers, then I’ll cut down those false emperors!”
“I am the Heavenly Dao. For all living beings trapped in this cage, I will carve out a true road to the heavens!”
