Shen Yichen, a blacksmith’s son with a mortal body and no command of spiritual power, finds his way into an immortal sect. When the Taixu Sect holds its disciple selection, he passes the Heart-Testing Path and comprehends the Heavenly Evolution Art. A Golden Core elder makes an exception and accepts him as a disciple.
The Heavenly Evolution Art does not cultivate spiritual power. It cultivates the forces of the world: wind, water, thunder. By borrowing the power of heaven and earth, he can cleave the sect’s protective formation, awaken the dead swords in the Sunken Sword Valley, and make new buds sprout from an ancient banyan that has been dead for ten thousand years.
But his opponent is no mortal, no cultivator. It is the Heavenly Dao.
At the seventh level of the Heavenly Evolution Art, one grasps the forces of the world. Reaching this stage lets you see the inevitability of fate. The last person to reach this level went mad.
He is next.
He will either become a god or descend into madness.
The blacksmith’s son, defying heaven and reshaping its forces.
