At the Lin family's martial arts arena in Qingyang City, Lin Chen is publicly dumped by his fiancée, Wang Xueqing. Already a genius at the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm, Wang Xueqing has been taken on as the personal disciple of an inner sect elder of the Xuantian Sect. She tosses down a letter of dissolution and mocks Lin Chen as a "meridianless good-for-nothing" who isn't worthy of her.
Just as Lin Chen is about to sign, the Lin family's Third Elder, a lackey of the Wang family, suddenly makes his move. He intends to seize the opportunity to strip Lin Chen of his status as a family member and expel him, claiming that "keeping a good-for-nothing in the family will only disgrace the Lin name."
Just as Lin Chen is driven to the brink, a towering black pillar of light erupts from the Lin family's forbidden grounds. It is the seal left behind by Lin Chen's father! The pillar of black light sinks into Lin Chen's body, and the dormant "Void Devouring Physique" within him begins to awaken.
