A hundred thousand years ago, the Nine Saints fought a great war, and the Saint of Fortune, Dayan, fell.
One of the nine pillars supporting the heavens broke, leaving a crack in the northwestern sky. Calamity ash has rained down on the mortal world year after year.
The bait boss in Ash City shoves sixteen-year-old Chu Yi to the very front of the bait line. He's the city's most notorious jinx, so he ought to be fed to the calamity beasts.
The night the calamity beasts pounce, the copper coin mark in his heart awakens.
The misfortune side devours calamity; the fortune side conceals luck.
The calamity of beasts, the sins of the wicked, the thunder of the heavens: if he can devour them, he can turn them into fortune.
His luck burns along the path he has witnessed with his own eyes. Three years of bitter cultivation, and overnight he reaches enlightenment.
The official records say that those with abundant, brilliant luck are remnants of Dayan, known as Luckspawn, and that anyone may kill them.
The copper disc in the palm of the Luck Hunters of the Heavenly Capital has already begun searching for him.
Then he'll start by slaughtering the bait in the lowest depths of Ash City, fight his way up to the Middle Heaven, then the Ninth Heaven.
The heavens are missing a corner. I'll mend it.
And when I'm done, I'll stand beyond the heavens.
