Changye

[Not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy. A cultivation story about growth, with solid logic! Great for following over the long haul!]

The Zhao family of Qingzhou is wiped out overnight. Its only legitimate heir, Zhao Fan, crawls out from a pile of corpses with a broken sword engraved with nine layers of seals on his back.

This is not a passionate tale of a young prodigy making a name for himself. In the world of "Chang Ye", spiritual energy and baleful energy coexist, and immortal sects and demon realms decay side by side. Cultivators gamble for that faint chance at immortality in the blood-red Falling Star City, mine for riches beneath bottomless abysses, and become sacrifices to unspeakable things in ancient ruins.

Bearing the “Supreme Yin Dao Platform” and wielding a forbidden broken sword, Zhao Fan has no need for false sympathy, nor does he follow the broad, well-trodden path of immortality. He seizes opportunities amid the ruins and establishes his foundation while being hunted, using the spirits of all living beings as ink and forbidden death energy as his guide.

When the nine layers of sword seals are unlocked one by one, and that bronze ancient coffin awakens once more after the passage of ages, the world finally realizes:

The so-called golden age of cultivation is nothing more than an eternal night hidden beneath a false sun.

And Zhao Fan, carrying that all-devouring broken sword, is knocking on the gate where the gods fell, deep in the darkness.