Lu Chen is a beggar, and also the possessor of a Dao physique born only once in ten thousand years.
Yet although Heaven gave him peerless talent, it allowed him to live only until the age of sixteen.
To change his fate, his master, Ye Guming, burned through all his cultivation and died, leaving behind only a wisp of his soul hidden inside the rusty sword "Withered Glory."
From then on, Lu Chen had a hidden trump card capable of slaying powerful foes: as long as he awakened the remnant soul within the sword, he could borrow one strike from his master.
Others drew their swords to fight for fame. When he drew his, he was betting the lives he and his master had left.
Should he make this strike? Was this person worth saving? Was this grievance worth risking his life to settle?
Lu Chen weighed every choice carefully.
Until the day the mighty ones of the heavens forced him to kneel, using the lives of all living beings as a stepping stone to ascend to Heaven.
The white-haired youth gripped the rusty sword and burned through the last of his lifespan:
"Master, lend me one more strike."
"With this strike, I ask not for eternal life. I only want this man-eating Heaven to never devour another person again."
Work hard, keep up the good work, keep up the good work