This is a world where Qi determines everything.
The Qi-Measuring Jade hangs high above the world, and everyone’s fate is decided from the moment they are born.
Those with low Qi are destined to be as base as mud; those with high Qi stand above all living things.
The weak cannot resist, and the strong make the rules.
Lu Shi was originally an unremarkable boy from the frontier of the Northern Wasteland.
His grandfather died a brutal death, and his home was destroyed. He struggled to survive amid corpses and hunger. An accident brought him into contact with a power that should never have belonged to someone of his station, and made him realize that his “Qi” seemed different from everyone else’s in this world.
From the slums of Blackstone City to the great continent dotted with sects; from the far north shrouded in eternal night to sealed regions concealing the secrets of the divine realm…
Lu Shi forged ahead, treading a path of blood.
He saw humanity at its filthiest and rules at their cruelest.
To survive, he could bow his head, endure, or kill.
Because in this world:
The kind don’t survive.
And what truly terrified Lu Shi was not the powerful figures high above him.
It was the day he discovered that the order governing the entire world had been a lie from the very beginning.
When the Qi-Measuring Jade no longer represented the truth, when the secrets of the divine realm gradually came to light, when the darkness behind the nine great regions was torn open…
This blood-soaked road would ultimately lead to the edge of the world.
