Good-for-Nothing in the Mortal Realm

Chu Fan, the castoff of Qingshi Town, has an inferior fake spirit root. After sixteen years, he is still at the first level of Qi Refining, the laughingstock of the entire town.

The rusty iron ring his father left behind suddenly grows hot just as his cousin stomps him into the mud. It snaps Chu Hao’s sword in two, then burrows between Chu Fan’s brows. A fading voice comes from inside the ring: “My son, Chu Fan, your mother isn’t dead. She’s in the Central Domain. Come find me.”

From then on, his spirit root can be saved, and the ring awakens the True Interpretation of Myriad Forms. Spirit Vision lets him see the flow of spiritual energy; deduction allows him to break through every technique; and his Broken Fang Saber shatters anyone who dares defy him.

At Qingshi Town’s junior contest, one punch knocks out all of Chu Hao’s teeth. At the outer-sect competition of the Qingyun Sect, he smashes the grand formation and cripples the elder who tried to kill him in front of everyone. At the Southern Domain’s gathering of young prodigies, he fights his way into the top three. When Chu Hao falls to demonic cultivation, Chu Fan destroys his dantian with a single punch.

But his enemies only grow stronger. His mentor blows himself up to protect him; his sworn brother dies taking a blade for him; the entire sect is wiped out; and his second uncle is publicly maimed, his hands and feet severed. Chu Fan fights his way through the Nine Domains, rebuilds his sect and family, and demands the truth about the Nine Domains.

Above the Nine Domains are the Nine Heavens. The people there treat the entire mortal world like a pigpen.

“I got this life back from the dead. Anyone who wants to take it can come and try.”