Immortal Emperor Lin Chen lost a great battle in the immortal realm. After falling in battle, he was reborn in a wasteland world.
There was no spiritual energy here, only radiation, mutated beasts, and survivors scraping by amid the ruins. The spirit-devouring virus of the old world had destroyed civilization, while spirit-devourers from beyond the world continued seeping in from deep beneath the earth, slowly consuming everything. The so-called "psychics" were merely poisoned people surviving by absorbing contaminated residue.
But Lin Chen had brought the Azure Lotus Creation Art, the only cultivation technique capable of purifying radiation and contamination and restoring them to pure spiritual energy.
He awoke in the ruins with nothing but a rat bone beside him. In the black market of Blackiron City, he refined the demonic energy sealed inside a broken blade. In the basement of Ruins No. 09, he took in three wasteland orphans as disciples: the rash Wang Pojun, the taciturn Ye Qisha, and the sharp-eyed Shi Tianji.
His immortal sword had shattered, its fragments scattered across this wasteland. Each fragment was a purification node, suppressing the contamination of the spirit-devourers from beyond the world. Following the main flow of the old world’s spiritual leyline northward, he found the eighth fragment at Monitoring Station No. 3 on the southern edge of the Radiation Sea. The Azure Lotus bloomed anew within him, his sword was reforged, and he broke through to the ninth level of Qi Refining.
But he also saw the truth: the fragments were not merely pieces of his immortal sword. They were the world’s final barrier. Taking one away loosened the contamination’s hold. Between reforging his sword and protecting the world, he had to choose a path with no turning back.
"No matter what layer of hell this is, I, Lin Chen, will fight my way back up again."
