Chen Fan, an ordinary youth with mediocre talent, is turned away from a sect's trial because his spiritual roots are too weak. He believes he has no chance of cultivating immortality in this life, but on his way home, he encounters a dying old man. With his final breath, the old man entrusts him with a broken sword covered in rust.
From that moment, the gears of fate begin to turn.
The seemingly ordinary broken sword conceals a shocking secret capable of overturning the Three Realms. While the sect's prodigies are still struggling to break through to Foundation Establishment, Chen Ping has quietly mastered the power to cleave the heavens with a single sword. At the sect's grand gathering, he stands with sword in hand before the lofty sect geniuses and strikes just once
Heaven and earth lose their color, and the crowd falls silent.
Only then do they realize that the ordinary youth they once mocked has embarked on a path no one has ever walked before. And what awaits him is a truth more cruel than cultivating immortality.
