[Road Trip | Supernatural Awakening | Worldbuilding | Old-School Heroics | Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain]
In a world where demons and monsters have awakened, Zhang Qingdu transmigrates into the body of the old Heavenly Master of Mount Longhu.
After awakening the wisdom of his past life, he enters the Martial Saint realm in a single day and sweeps the myriad races and monsters beyond the ninety-ninth pass, but exhausts his own vital energy in the process.
Thirty years later, the myriad races attack the pass again. He sends three hundred disciples to the front lines, only to receive three hundred blood coffins from the enemy as birthday gifts on the day he turns one hundred.
Even the final disciple he loves most is hung on a tower of heads beyond the great pass.
Zhang Qingdu descends the mountain carrying a coffin to gather the remains, and begins cultivating the body-tempering technique he spent thirty years painstakingly deducing, the Myriad Forms Body Tempering Art.
From then on, he can temper his body with every thing and form in the world.
He walks barefoot upon the earth, drawing its energy into his body to temper his muscles. Every step he takes increases his strength.
Beyond the ninety-ninth pass, he shatters mountains and splits the sky, exploding stars with a single punch.
He climbs one towering mountain after another, absorbing their energy to temper his bones and gaining the strength to support the heavens like a jade pillar.
Beyond the ninety-ninth pass, his bones weigh a hundred million jin, and he lives for trillions of years.
He observes rivers, lakes, and seas, shedding impurities and cleansing his marrow, until the vital energy in his body condenses into an endless sea of blood.
Beyond the ninety-ninth pass, he collects the blood debts of the myriad races, transforms them into a blood sea of the Nine Hells, and imprisons the souls of the myriad races.
When the demons of the myriad races are all gone, he places his disciples' remains in coffins on the tower of heads, then turns around and goes home.
In short, this is the story of an old man who uses all things in the world to temper his skin, refine his flesh, strengthen his bones, cleanse his marrow, change his sinews, replace his blood, return his organs to their proper state, illuminate his apertures, command thunder, and temper his eyes.
