On the Tianming Continent, everyone is born with an Eight-Character Destiny. It determines your spiritual roots, and your spiritual roots determine your future. At the age of eighteen, everyone must enter the Taixu Daoist Sect to receive their final judgment from the Stone of Destiny: will they join the sect, cultivate, and soar to greatness, or spend their lives as commoners, sinking to the bottom?
The sect selects its disciples according to their fates. Marriage is arranged according to Eight-Character Destinies. Even a menial job requires a person’s fortune to be checked first.
People firmly believe that one’s Eight-Character Destiny cannot be changed, and fate is decided by Heaven.
Chen Yin, eighteen years old. The Stone of Destiny judged him to have “a life cursed by calamity, with no hope of living past twenty. Cultivation is inadvisable.”
The sect turned him away, and his neighbors avoided him like the plague. He signed a death waiver and became a servant, sweeping up broken swords in the most desolate corner of the Qinglong Sword Sect’s rear mountain sword graveyard.
Everyone was certain he had nowhere left to go.
But no one noticed that the moment the Stone of Destiny passed judgment, the sword-shaped mark his father had burned into his chest with blood eighteen years ago began to blaze.
Deep in the sword graveyard, a broken sword engraved with the character “Chen” trembled faintly in the moonlight. The instant Chen Yin grasped it, azure sword energy burst from his body. His Divine Wood Sword Veins, an ancient sword cultivator bloodline, awakened their first seal in the depths of despair.
The Sword That Shatters the Heavens
