Across the nine continents of the mortal world, all living beings are prisoners.
The Heavenly Dao locks them with a hundred apertures. Every aperture a mortal opens demands flesh and blood, and something precious, as its offering. When the eye aperture awakens, the right eye goes blind. When the heart aperture stirs, the heart is cut out and the bones are shattered. The nine major apertures and ninety-one auxiliary apertures are all paths to certain death. No one in history has ever opened all one hundred, because no one can endure the agony a hundred times over.
An orphan abandoned in the Black Miasma Forest, a forbidden death zone, accidentally triggers an ancient cultivation method that has lain dormant for thousands of years: the Nine Apertures to Transcend Mortality. On the night a piece of firewood blinds his right eye, he begins trading pain for power and loss for survival. From an abandoned child of Longevity Village to a feudal lord of the Seven Kingdoms, from being hunted by both the righteous and demonic paths to becoming the supreme being of the mortal world, he makes his fate real step by step and tears open the Heavenly Dao.
Only after he finally opens all one hundred apertures and knocks on the gates of the Immortal Realm with his mortal bones does he discover the truth: the Immortal Realm is merely a larger cage, and the gods of the Divine Realm are parasites who live by feeding on the faith of the lower realms.
“You say mortals cannot become gods? Then I will make it possible for every living being in the Three Realms to advance through their own apertures.”
This is the story of a man who stands against the Heavenly Dao, and an epic tale of a mortal defying fate. The deeper the pain, the weightier the Dao.
