In Qingshi Town, blacksmith's apprentice Lu Zheng passed his days tending the forge. When a broken mirror unexpectedly chose him as its master, it swept him into the storms of the martial world.
After his master died unjustly, he took the broken mirror and entered the martial world, forging legendary weapons and taking vengeance. Then he discovered that beyond the martial world lay the Nine Heavens.
To uncover the truth behind the mirror, he split open the void and ascended to the cultivation world.
Spiritual energy was scarce, and sects fought among themselves. He led a band of exiles, building from nothing and founding the Broken Water Clan.
Through centuries of solitude, watching those who came after him grow old and the women he loved turn gray, his Dao heart was tempered into steel by the river of time.
Later, he ascended to the Immortal Realm, only to discover that this paradise was nothing but a hunting ground. Fragments of the broken mirror were scattered across the realms, mighty beings fed on all living things, and even the world itself was the remains of an ancient god.
His inner world began to take shape, and the souls of old friends lay dormant. He had gone from prey to hunter.
At last, when the old Immortal Realm collapsed and all mirrors returned to their source, he created a new world atop the ruins.
Yet he put away his powers and returned to the mortal world, relighting the forge in the very blacksmith shop where it all began.
"A hundred refinings make steel, a thousand make a weapon, and ten thousand make a person."
This is the story of one man, one mirror, three realms, and ten thousand years.
