After the Investiture of the Gods calamity ends, all life in the Primordial World believes that the Dao of Hongjun is supreme, that beheading the Three Corpses is the ultimate goal of cultivation, and that all things are controlled by the cycle of the Heavenly Dao. Saints such as the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa sit at the top of the myriad heavens, while Hongjun surveys the Primordial World from the Purple Heaven Palace.
But one day, a mysterious sky screen suddenly appears high above the world, launching a shocking revelation.
“Do not be deceived! Beheading the Three Corpses has never been a way to transcend the Great Dao. It merely consigns your own soul to the Heavenly Dao’s imprisonment!”
The words resound through Heaven and Earth. The Three Pure Ones are thrown into turmoil, Nuwa falls into deep thought, and the two Western Saints’ Daoist hearts waver. Even Hongjun, inside the Purple Heaven Palace, grows wary.
Han Lin, hidden in the Kunlun Ruins, is one of the surviving remnants of the Chaos Era. By chance, he gains control of the sky screen.
As one Heavenly Dao deception after another is exposed, the truth emerges: sainthood is a cage, the Investiture of the Gods is a soul-binding shackle, and the ancient Chaos Era was erased.
The Saints turn on one another and fall out, while the old order of the Primordial World teeters on the brink of collapse.
In secret, Han Lin gathers the remnants of the Wu Clan, the surviving immortals of the Jie Sect, and other beings unwilling to remain under control, forming the Alliance Against the Dao.
He draws strength from the faith of all living beings and exposes Hongjun’s past as the Heavenly Dao’s warden, all while seeking the truth left behind by Chaos.
When the sky screen reveals the ultimate secret of the Heavenly Dao’s source, all living beings finally learn that beyond the cage lies a vast, boundless world of Chaos.
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