In the tenth year of the spiritual qi revival, alien beasts breach the border, while demons from beyond the domain lurk, eyeing the human world.
At the martial arts exam, Xu Shiyan is tested and found to have an F-rank trash spirit root, earning nothing but ridicule.
No one knows that a celestial tomb lies within him, burying hundreds of millions of ancient Chinese heroes.
A foot soldier guarding Heaven's Gate with a broken halberd, a general suppressing mountains and rivers with his sword, an Earth Immortal who became a wall with his own body, gods who sacrificed themselves for all living beings...
That day, a beast tide breaks through the city. Everyone thinks he is about to die beneath the claws of the alien beasts.
Xu Shiyan pushes open the tomb door he has spent eighteen years trying to open and takes up a bloodstained half-halberd.
“What do you go forth to do?”
“To subdue the demons and guard the human world.”
“What if you never return?”
“Then I will never return.”
From then on, a young man bearing a halberd walks the human world.
The gods beyond the border gaze down from outside Heaven's Gate. He stands atop the nation's frontier and cleaves the firmament with a single strike.
Heroes lie buried in the tomb. As long as I stand among the living, I am a living monument to their memory.
