With Mortal Flesh, I Knock on Heaven’s Gate

When heaven and earth first took shape, the Primordial Emperor gave his body to form the Three Realms and established the principle that the Great Dao favors no one and all beings are equal. But his disciple Xuan Qiong usurped the Heavenly Dao, rewrote its laws, and proclaimed himself the Heavenly Emperor. He used tribulations to cap cultivators' power and trapped all souls in reincarnation, turning the Six Realms into a prison ruled by a tyrant.

In Luofeng Town of the mortal realm, the young apothecary apprentice Lu Xun had lived an ordinary life until heavenly generals pursued him on a snowy night. His master, Mo Chenzi, died protecting him and entrusted him with an ancient fragment of the Primordial Stele, revealing the truth about the Three Realms. Bearing a unique Dao physique capable of breaking fate, Lu Xun embarked on a path of cultivation against the heavens. From a speck of dust in the mortal realm, he fought his way into Xuanzhou, a realm teeming with cultivators.

Along the way, he befriended Bai Mancang, a wandering cultivator who prized both money and loyalty; Ye Jinghong, an orphan of the Sword-Seeking Sect with a pure sword heart; and Chu Lingxi, the last heir of the Wu Clan. Together with Qing Wu, young mistress of Qingqiu, he rallied the myriad demons, broke into the Netherworld, and entered the Turbid Realm, uncovering Xuan Qiong's monstrous conspiracy to seize the throne and slaughter all living beings.

Using the stele fragment to comprehend the Primordial Dao Scripture, Lu Xun fused pure and turbid energies, broke the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, and united the Three Realms in resistance, vowing to overthrow the false Heavenly Dao. From fleeing through the mortal realm to waging war against the heavens, from the Spirit Condensation Realm to the Great Emperor Realm, Lu Xun survived world-ending tribulations and destroyed the Heavenly Realm's minions, confronting the Heavenly Emperor Xuan Qiong, master of the celestial laws, in the body of a mere mortal.

At last, the sword of a young man loosened the shackles the Heavenly Dao had imposed for millions of years. Along the way, he stood by his friends, protected all living beings, and sought the Great Dao. He did not seek to claim the highest throne, but to restore the true path of the Primordial Beginning and give the beings of the Six Realms genuine equality and freedom.