The myriad heavens once fell to immortal warfare. The Wheel of Return shielded the surviving worlds, but also trapped those who came after under the laws of the old immortals. Spiritual energy dwindles by the day, and the Wheel's master intends to refine all the worlds into an eternal immortal realm that admits only a single path.
Seventeen-year-old Cheng Jianchuan is born with the Heart of Myriad Forms. He excels at finding a third way to win when everyone else has already decided the outcome. He has a good master, parents waiting for him at home, and a touch of pride he can't quite hide. At first, all he wants is to reclaim thirty-seven spirit stones and build a ship that can go out to sea and bring him home again.
Until the ship home starts using its passengers as fuel.
Together with Ning Zhiyao, who personally helped chart its course, he seizes the helm and shuts down the furnace. From securing one shipload of lives, they plunge into the future of the myriad heavens. Their alchemist and sword cultivator companions, along with their demon clan friends, each have their own path to immortality and their own personalities. Laughing as they race ahead and stand shoulder to shoulder through every crisis, they travel from the sea routes between worlds into a lost fragment of heaven, from youthful experiments with magical tools to a contest for the immortal path.
But when the Wheel's master threatens to trade their entire homeland for his surrender, simply winning a fight can no longer solve the problem.
The old world must not fall, and a new world must grow. Cheng Jianchuan must forge a world that can sustain and renew itself, one that can accommodate all paths. He must also turn his own genius into a path that ordinary people can follow to cultivate, fight, and become immortals.
From a ship bound for home to a new world where all paths thrive together, he means to win, and to give every race and every living being a path of its own.
