The world is bound by prohibitions known as the "Nine Heavenly Locks," which bind the lifespans, cultivation, bloodlines, and reincarnations of all living beings...
Lin Yan was born with a shattered-pattern physique. His meridians had collapsed and his foundation was incomplete, so his family cast him aside like trash and branded him a cripple for life.
Then, in a deserted courtyard beside a dry well, he unearthed a black bone shard covered in cracks: the Dao Pattern Forbidden Tome.
Others cultivated by awakening complete Dao Patterns, drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and rising step by step.
But Lin Yan could only devour the broken patterns of all things: shattered weapons, damaged artifacts, withered spirit herbs, and the bones of the dead... Amid the ashes of destruction and ruin, he would forcibly plunder, shatter and reassemble, forging a forbidden power that belonged to him alone.
From then on, the junkyard became his blessed haven, and broken objects his supreme source of nourishment.
At the clan tournament, his shattered-pattern body rose to shock the world, black claw shadows cracking ten thousand patterns!
Within the sect, a forbidden legacy revealed its first glimmer, while conspiracies surrounding the Ruin Aspect stirred beneath the surface!
At the Gathering of Geniuses, his forbidden patterns swept across the world's greatest prodigies, and the truth behind the calamity tore open the heavens!
The Heavenly Dao rejects him? All paths unite to destroy him? The emperors join forces against him? The Ruin Aspect seeks to destroy the world?
Lin Yan gripped the broken bone shard in his hand, his eyes cold and resolute:
"If heaven would lock me away, then I'll shatter heaven. If the Dao would condemn me, then I'll forbid the Dao."
"If this path is closed, then with this shattered-pattern body, I'll carve a new forbidden path for the world!"
This is the dark legend of a boy with shattered patterns who devours countless remnants in the depths of despair, commands forbidden power, shatters the Heavenly Locks, battles the Ruin Aspect, defies the emperors, and ultimately reshapes the world.
