The Great Desolate Tower

Genius youth Chu Fan had his Spirit Flame bloodline stolen by his closest kin on the night of the ancestral rites. His meridians were shattered, and his fiancée tore up their marriage contract in front of everyone. "A cripple is worth less than a dog." His family secretly ordered his execution, but as he lay on the brink of death, a nine-story Primordial Desolation Pagoda appeared on his brow. The Primordial Desolation Empress, who had slept within it for ninety-nine million years, awakened and formed a symbiotic pact with him. He would share the ancient poison that had plagued her for millennia, and she would teach him the supreme Empress's arts.

From an ant in Cloudfall City to the peak of chaos, Chu Fan fought his way through one battle after another: turning the tables at Blackwind Ridge, making a name for himself among the Three Palaces, seizing a lotus in the Middle Thousand Worlds, and fighting an imperial war in the Divine Realm. Meanwhile, the Canglan Empress, who had betrayed the Empress all those years ago, was descending upon the myriad heavens with the source of darkness.

Only when all nine stories of the Primordial Desolation Pagoda opened did he discover that its final floor sealed away a secret even the Empress dared not speak of.