A lowly menial disciple bears a fatal debt to the Heavenly Dao, imposed on him by his sect. By chance, he awakens the one and only source of the Debt Path, capable of settling the cultivation debts of heaven and earth. The cultivation world looks prosperous, but in truth everyone borrows to cultivate, passing the cost down layer by layer. The protagonist refuses to borrow and chooses only to repay. Starting by clearing his own tainted debt, he tears open the schemes by which sects, clans, and holy lands shift their burdens onto others, shatters the lie that powerful figures of the ages have prolonged their lives by exploiting the powerless, and ultimately remakes the laws of fairness.
