Across the boundless cosmos, countless races stand side by side. A war between ancient gods tears the heavens apart, and its flames spread to the Immortal Realm. Great sects are dragged into the conflict, the barriers between the Immortal and Divine Realms shatter, and space and time become tangled and disordered. Suddenly, the two realms merge.
In the instant of the merger, the enforcers of both the Immortal and Divine Realms are struck down by the backlash of the Heavenly Dao, perishing on the spot. The Will of Heaven awakens and uses its supreme power to stabilize the order of space and time in both realms. As the cosmos undergoes a drastic transformation, all deities see their cultivation fall to the Immortal King realm, and their divine might is greatly diminished.
The merger shakes the mortal realm as well, and the passages to the Immortal and Divine Realms close completely. They cannot reopen until the cosmic order of both realms has fully stabilized, one hundred thousand years from now. From then on, mortal cultivators who wish to ascend to the Immortal and Divine Realms must walk an ancient road to the heavens known as the “Mortal Path.” Those from the Immortal and Divine Realms, meanwhile, must wait a full hundred thousand years before they can descend to the mortal world.
For the people of the mortal realm, immortality is a lifelong obsession. Generation after generation sets out on the Mortal Path, seeking to ascend to the Immortal and Divine Realms and attain eternal life.
Chen Yang, crown prince of Huaxia, suffers a catastrophe at the age of fifteen. His body is destroyed in the forbidden Black Flame Valley, but his undying source blood and a fragment of his soul give birth to a martial soul, tempered by black fire and innate divine lightning. He rises from the brink of death. From then on, he embarks on a long journey of cultivation, enduring countless trials and traversing every corner of the mortal realm in his lifelong pursuit of godhood, all so he can reach the Divine Realm and find his mother, who became a deity.
Time passes. Old friends grow old, and kingdoms rise and fall, but Chen Yang's resolve never wavers. He cuts a path through every obstacle and vanquishes every powerful foe, until at last he finds the entrance to the Immortal and Divine Realms at the end of the Mortal Path.
The moment he steps into the Immortal and Divine Realms, the undying source sealed away for countless ages awakens completely. With a mortal's body, he defies the gods...
