The story follows Xing Hen, a martial arts master reborn as a slave in Blackstone Stronghold in the Great World of Canglan. Awakening the memories of his former life in traditional Chinese martial arts, he uses the Five-Animal Mimicry Internal Style to defeat the brutal overseer Shi Kui despite their disparity in power. He unites the slave camps of the Black Marsh, abolishes the cruel practice of breeding slaves, and creates his own body-forging technique. After entering the Southern Wilderness Dynasty, he crushes the talents of the great clans with his martial arts, exposes their conspiracy to enslave people, and upends the dynasty's power structure. He also reunites with Wei Xiaoxue, a woman bound to him by their past life.
He joins an ancient major sect, combines traditional martial arts with Yuan cultivation, and carves out a path of his own, rising to the top among the region's prodigies and discovering that rebirth is a fundamental law of the world. After ascending to the Immortal Realm of the Central Wilderness, he creates The Five-Animal Path of the Primordial Spirit and establishes an independent tradition, traversing the heavens alongside Wei Xiaoxue. At last, he ventures into the ultimate forbidden land, Return to Ruin, and confronts the truth: the Heavenly Dao uses cultivators as fuel for reincarnation. He breaks through the limits of cultivation, gathers the ancient broken jade pieces, and unlocks the legacy of creation. Using traditional martial arts and his primordial spirit to attain the Dao, he purges the outer demons, rebuilds the cycle of reincarnation, and claims the throne of the Heavenly Dao of Return to Ruin. Together with Wei Xiaoxue, he escapes the bonds of reincarnation and reaches the ultimate state of eternal, invincible life.
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