From the summit to the dust, from a curse to the throne
He was once the Demon Venerable Emperor Sha, who ruled over both the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm. After ten thousand years of cultivation, he could decide the fate of stars with a single thought. Yet just as he reached the pinnacle, his closest friend betrayed him and his beloved turned against him. His body perished, his cultivation scattered, and his soul was obliterated.
But the Heavenly Dao left him a sliver of hope. One wisp of the Demon Venerable’s soul survived, carrying a bone-deep hatred and unanswered questions, and was reborn as Su Mo, a worthless, despised collateral relative of the Su family in Qingyang City.
Rebirth into hell
In this life, his meridians are blocked and he has no spiritual power. He struggles to survive at the bottom of his family. Worse still, an ancient forbidden curse is branded on his chest: the Life-Devouring Curse. Like a parasite burrowing into his bones, it devours his vitality day and night, keeping him perpetually on the brink of death.
The world sees him as a harbinger of plague and curses him for practicing evil arts. His family treats him like dirt and wants him gone.
The curse is also power
But Su Mo discovers that as the Life-Devouring Curse consumes his life, it also turns the vitality it steals into a domineering black energy. It is agonizing, yet can forcibly break through the limits of his meridians. It is deadly, yet can devour other people’s spiritual power and life force for his own use.
Wielding the curse as a blade, he advances through blood
Bearing a double-edged curse, Su Mo embarks on a path of cultivation unlike any other. He rises from an abandoned son of the family to an enemy of the sects; from the “Life-Devouring Calamity” everyone avoids to the “Curse Emperor,” whose name terrifies the entire continent.
“When I return to the summit, those who betrayed me, wronged me, or stood in my way will all be annihilated.”
The truth and revenge go beyond this
However, as his power returns, Su Mo gradually discovers that the betrayal in his previous life was no accident, and neither was the arrival of the Life-Devouring Curse.
