Jiang Ning is the good-for-nothing third young master of the Jiang family in Qingyun City. His spiritual aperture has been blocked for seven years, and he has endured nothing but scorn.
On the eve of his fifteenth birthday, cultivators from the Tianque Sect storm the Jiang family. His father burns through his cultivation to help him escape, while all 137 members of the clan are slaughtered.
On the night his family is destroyed, the mysterious fragment his mother sealed inside him seven years ago finally awakens. It is what the Tianque Sect was willing to slaughter the Jiang family to seize: an ancient treasure that fell from the heavens.
His spiritual aperture shatters, and his cultivation surges. With his father's broken sword on his back, he sets out alone into the Qingyun Mountains.
He gradually discovers that the fragment has given him a unique power: he can see the past origins of all things.
The secret behind the fragment is far greater than he imagined:
Eight thousand years ago, the Heart of the Firmament shattered, and its seven fragments were scattered across the Nine Domains.
Gather all seven, and you can command heaven and earth and reopen the path to ascension.
The Tianque Sect is searching for them. The Asura Hall is fighting to claim them. The remnants of the Nine Domains are waiting for the one foretold to gather them all.
And a woman in white who claims to know his “past life” sends a message across the endless reaches of time and space:
“Come find me.”
In this life, he will not run again.
