Young Lu Jin scavenges for junk in the north of Tianjin City, and everyone there calls him a good-for-nothing. Then he picks up a battered bronze mirror beneath the Spirit-Suppressing Pagoda. A blind old blacksmith tells him, “What you found is Ashen Bone, condensed from the aura of death. And hidden in your palm is a forbidden art lost for three thousand years: the Spirit-Devouring Art.”
The Demon Venerable of Spirit Devouring is sealed beneath the pagoda, a seal his father paid for with his life. The inheritance of the Witch God lies buried in the sacred mountains of the Southern Wastelands, bought with his mother’s blood. The Human Emperor has waited thirty years for someone capable of cultivating the Spirit-Devouring Art.
First stage: consume Ashen Bone. Second: devour the Demon Venerable. Third: inherit the Witch God’s legacy. Fourth: devour heaven and earth.
Three thousand years of grudges, three cycles of reincarnation, all come to rest in this one blacksmith’s shop.
As long as the flame of inheritance endures, even the useless can follow a path of their own.
