Immortal Emperor of the Void and Myriad Worlds

Earth's spiritual energy has been waning for a thousand years. The cultivation world has fallen into decline, and Foundation Establishment has become little more than a legend. Eighteen-year-old Lin Ye, a junior member of the Jiangnan Lin family, has been stuck at the first level of Qi Refining for three years. His family looks down on him, and his peers mock him. During an archaeological expedition, an accident pulls him into a spatial rift. At the brink of death, he awakens a fragment of the “Imperial Seal” and glimpses the truth buried beneath the dust:

What people call the spiritual qi revival is actually a sign that the ancient “Nine Palaces Heaven-Sealing Formation” is beginning to break apart. The Heavenly Gate opens once every six hundred years, not as an opportunity to ascend, but as a crack through which fiends from beyond the heavens can infiltrate. The “opportunity at the Heavenly Gate” coveted by the Netherworld Path, the Starwatch Tower, and the reclusive clans is really a trap meant to destroy the world.

Returning with a fragment of the Imperial Seal, Lin Ye still appears to be a worthless cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining. In secret, however, he has inherited the duty of suppressing the myriad realms. Family infighting, pursuit by the Netherworld, and ancient mysteries come one after another. Before the seal is completely shattered, he must gather the nine Imperial Seal fragments scattered across the world and carve out a path to survival amid lies and betrayal.

And when the blood moon hangs in the sky, the nine steles come together, and the Heavenly Gate opens atop Kunlun, everyone finally realizes that the youth they once trampled underfoot now commands the Imperial Seal and stands at the crossroads between salvation and destruction.