All people cultivate the Dao through the primordial spirit, drawing in spiritual energy, comprehending laws, and ascending to the Ninth Heaven.
Only Ling Xuan was born with a damaged primordial spirit, his path to the Dao severed. He became an outcast of the royal family and a laughingstock of the world.
His birth mother died young, his stepmother schemed for power, his half-brother relentlessly provoked him, and his clan closed in on him at every turn.
After fifteen years of humiliation and cold stares, with half his life spent as a prisoner, he stood on the brink of death when the Hongmeng ancestral blood sealed within him for countless ages suddenly awakened.
In a single moment, he cast aside all techniques, forged his physical body, and began cultivating the Ten Thousand Tribulations Body-Trace Scripture.
He would withstand the Heavenly Dao with his flesh and blood, forge an immortal body through countless tribulations, and defy the heavens with a mortal frame.
He lay low in the mortal realm and tempered his bones in the wilderness, breaking through shackles amid slaughter;
he traveled alone through the spirit domain, shattering prejudice and crushing countless cultivators with his physical strength;
he rampaged through the divine realm, shattered the divine thrones, and exposed an ancient conspiracy sealed away across the Myriad Realms;
he crossed Chaos, traced his origins to Hongmeng, and faced the dark schemes of a fallen Supreme.
The myriad races of the heavens stood in countless realms, wars raged without end, and a game of the Great Dao had laid an eternal prison.
Rising from a discarded nobody in the dust, he bore betrayal, shouldered his fate, crossed seas of blood, and protected those closest to him.
He relied neither on the favor of the Heavenly Dao nor on handouts from others. With nothing but his unyielding resolve, he fought his way down a singular path that defied the Dao.
When all gods bowed and the Myriad Realms trembled, the source of Hongmeng revealed the ultimate truth:
Ling Xuan finally learned that his own bloodline was the last spark of the ancient Great Dao.
With a single thought, his body endured ten thousand tribulations, immortal; with one step, he traced Hongmeng back to the Heavenly Dao.
I cultivate no laws of the heavens. My own body is the supreme Great Dao!
