The Heavenly Dao crumbles, and all living beings are consumed. Wielding a sword from the ashes, she asks: Does this apocalypse still deserve to be called the human world?
Once the Goddess of Yuxiao, she was falsely accused of being the source of calamity, stripped of her cultivation, and cast into the lifeless Ashen Ruins.
For five years, she wandered alone, wielding sword intent in a mortal body, hunting devourer beasts and clinging to life in a blighted wasteland steeped in corruption, all while bearing the name “harbinger of doom.”
Now the sky splits open and waves of corruption surge forth. The ancient immortal sects have become cities of bones.
Some cry that “destruction brings rebirth,” leading all living beings into the abyss.
Some build towering walls to preserve order, abandoning the weak like scraps of grass.
And some kindle a faint light in the depths of despair, vowing to save all life before it goes out.
She could have lived on alone, but one plea, “Doctor, please save the child,” draws her into the turmoil of this age.
Xiao Jin, the arrogant young lord who would burn the heavens, believes the strong have the right to plunder, yet is reduced to ashes in the flames protecting a boy.
Shen Qingyi, heir to the Medicine King, holds the art of healing in her hands and a vendetta for her slaughtered family in her heart. She would rather sacrifice herself than fail all living beings.
Xie Wujiu, a mysterious master of mechanisms, speaks lightly of worldly affairs while bearing the sin of bringing about the end of the world. In the end, he gives his life to atone for his ancestors’ crime.
Ji Wuyue, a prophet bound to fate, has seen every joy and sorrow the future holds, yet at the final moment chooses to believe that “humanity can overcome fate.”
Ling Yuan, once her closest friend and now a Saintess of the Abyss, raises her blade against her. “Yun Zhao, your kindness is the cruelest thing of all.”
In this apocalypse, where spiritual energy has dried up, morality has collapsed, and human hearts are more poisonous than the corruption,
she is no longer the banished genius, but the keeper of the lamp who rises from the ashes.
But when the truth comes to light, the catastrophe that overturned the Heavenly Dao began with the “salvation ritual” she herself had stopped...
