Overnight, a former genius becomes a good-for-nothing, trampled by his clan and jilted by a family friend. He reforges his meridians with a mortal body and advances step by step through sheer cunning, going from the family's castoff to a force that stirs the whole continent. On the summit of Guiyuan Mountain, his mother's figure flickers in the snow; beneath the Demon Abyss, something sealed away is beginning to awaken. And the six scars on his palm are splitting open, inch by inch.
