Mystic energy for tinder, bones for fuel, a dying flame lights up the sky.
In Qingyang City of the Northern Wasteland, Ning Jin was the Ning family's useless furnace. For nine years, his fire seed devoured his mystic energy, and people mocked him, saying, "Even feeding the fire is too filthy for you." On the night of the Fire Ignition Ceremony, the fire seed turned on him and the whole crowd was stunned. Only then did he learn the truth: the fire was no calamity, but a furnace, and the good-for-nothing mocked for nine years was the one and only furnace in the entire clan.
A message was carved on a bone token: "Leave the city. Head west." Carrying a dying flame, he left the city. He killed a red viper and gained its beast-fire essence, awakening his bloodline for the first time. He forged the viper's spine into a bone weapon called Ashen Abyss, progressing from dagger to sword. He braved powerful clans, entered the Heaven-Burning Academy, ascended the Nine Heavens, and crossed the Boundary Sea. Tempering his bones to prove the Dao, evolving his bloodline, and devouring fire seeds, he advanced along three paths at once, sweeping through the Mystic Wastes, the Nine Heavens, and the Sacred Flame Heaven.
But sealed at the bottom of the abyss was no monster. It was his father.
He journeyed west only to turn that door from a seal into a reunion.
