When Su Yang opened his eyes, the haze of seventy-two straight hours of overtime still clouded his mind. He was lying in a dilapidated woodshed at the Northern Marquis’s estate in the Great Yan Dynasty.
The fifth son of a concubine, with a mother who died young, a frail body that made martial arts impossible, and a life worse than that of even the most lowly servant: that was his situation from the start. At his most perilous moment, a half-moon jade pendant left by his mother activated the God and Demon Breeding System, hatching his first spirit beast: a black-and-gold ant no bigger than his thumb, with three golden stripes on its back.
That’s it? Su Yang was a little bewildered. But who says an ant can’t turn the world upside down?
From the woodshed to the training grounds, from the forbidden lands of Licheng to the frozen wastes of the Northern Frontier, from a despised, useless son of a concubine to the guardian who commands the seals of gods and demons, he used an ant to bite his legitimate elder brother to death, fought his way into the top thirteen under heaven in a major examination, and sealed the ancient remains of a god-demon who had slept for three hundred years with seven drops of divine-demonic blood. His spirit beasts evolved from ants to moon wolves, dragon hawks, and primordial dragon ants. His cultivation rose from the lowest first rank to the peak of the fifth. The people around him went from hidden agents and spies to loved ones he could trust with his life.
But when he finally stood at the altar in Licheng and faced the truth his mother had left behind sixteen years ago, he discovered that his transmigration and golden finger had never been accidents. His mother, his bloodline, the jade pendant at his waist: everything had been written into the final link of the seal of gods and demons before he was even born.
“You were born destined to walk this path.”
This is a story that begins with an ant. From the humblest starting point, it journeys toward the widest horizons.
