Lin Chen never imagined that, at seventeen, he would fall from the clouds into the dust.
On the day of the sect tournament, he loses all his spiritual power and becomes a cripple. His fiancée publicly breaks off their engagement, and his sect casts him aside. Overnight, he goes from the youngest genius in the three-hundred-year history of the Taixu Sect to a lowly servant on Servants' Peak, someone anyone can bully.
A broken-down shack on a rainy night. The darkest moment of his life.
Then the "eye" in his palm opens.
It is a mark left by a previous cultivation civilization, a key that could overturn the entire world. Master Yunguang, a monk who sweeps the Scripture Pavilion, tells him that the current cultivation world is a deception that has lasted ten thousand years. The path to ascension has been deliberately blocked, the heavenly tribulations are controlled from the shadows, and the so-called "gods" watch humanity from above the nine heavens as if tending a nest of gu worms.
And Lin Chen is the chosen Awakened One of that age.
He forgets every cultivation technique, gives up absorbing spiritual energy, and sets out on a path forbidden by the entire cultivation world: the path of awakening. Traveling with him is Lu Yao, an heir of the Medicine King Valley whose master also died while seeking the truth.
When the mark on his palm is exposed, the forces lurking in the shadows finally reveal themselves.
The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the cultivation world's public arbiter, is in truth a lackey left behind in the mortal realm by the ancient "gods." When the order to hunt them down is issued, Lin Chen and Lu Yao are forced to flee. They uncover shocking historical truths in ancient ruins, establish a new-era academy amid the standoff between north and south, and are forced to ally with their enemies when demons from beyond the realms invade.
In the end, they will face the mastermind who has occupied the nine heavens and controlled the cultivation world for ten thousand years.
It turns out the so-called gods are merely prisoners of a higher order.
Very nice, please update