This is a world where the civilization of immortal cultivation has reached an advanced stage. Spiritual energy fills the land, and cultivators fly through the skies, burrow underground, move mountains, and command seas. The nine supreme sects divide the world's resources among themselves. The cultivation world is rigidly stratified, and low-level rogue cultivators struggle to survive in places where spiritual energy is scarce.
But there is a secret no cultivator knows: the Heavenly Dao is a book that has already been written.
Your fate, what happens to you today, whether you break through tomorrow: it has all been written into this book. You don't know what the next line says, but every step you take follows the book's script.
The Sutian Sect is the only sect that knows this secret. A thousand years ago, after generations of Heavenly Secret Masters pieced together the book's full contents through their divinations, they discovered something even more terrifying: the ending was blank.
It wasn't that the Heavenly Dao had left the ending open. It was that the Heavenly Dao had been unable to continue writing when it reached the end. The rules were too rigid, the order too perfect, and the world had lost every “accident”, the only fuel that could keep a story going. The Heavenly Dao had written itself to death.
The Sutian Sect's leader recorded this discovery in a book made of animal hide: The Azure Satchel Record of Heavenly Secrets. Then the Heavenly Dao sent down a “correction,” and the entire Sutian Sect was destroyed. The only survivor was an outer disciple who hadn't had time to learn a single art. She later built a tower called the Mirror Moon Tower.
The book drifted through the mortal world for a thousand years. Then, on a rainy night as his sect was destroyed, a young man named Ye Jiyue carried it out of the flames.
