On the Tianyan Continent, Lu Chen is a menial worker in the alchemy room of the Taiyan Sect. He has spent ten years tending the furnace, reached only the third level of Qi Refining, and become the laughingstock of the entire sect. On the day his fiancée comes to break off their engagement, the sect’s sacred flame runs wild. He shields it with his own body, and the flame recognizes him as its master. His Burning Heaven Fire Veins awaken. Of the Burning Heaven Clan, slaughtered by the righteous factions a hundred thousand years ago, only his bloodline remains.
He devours divine flames, seizes alchemy recipes, and turns failed pills into divine elixirs. At the sect tournament, he beats the prodigies who once trampled him into the ground. When he leaves the sect to gain experience, one batch of pills sends shockwaves through the world’s Alchemy Alliance. But the more famous he becomes, the more exposed his origins are. Jiang Taixu, the Alchemy Sage who led the extermination of his clan, has already laid a vast net, waiting for this fish to fatten itself up.
The only person who ever cared for him, Old Yangan, the menial steward, protected him for ten years, then sold him out with his own hands. Only then did Lu Chen learn that the old man who used to hand him roasted sweet potatoes had the blood of half the Burning Heaven Clan on his hands. When his hatred reaches its peak, the truth turns upside down: Jiang Taixu did not exterminate the clan just to seize its treasures. Sealed inside the Burning Heaven Cauldron is the source of the demons that once plunged the world into chaos, and the key to opening the cauldron is Lu Chen’s bloodline. The man who killed his family and the man who wants to use him to unleash the demonic source are one and the same.
