Even If I Defeat Heaven, There's No Going Back

Gu Lin Tian, a prodigy born for greatness.

A genius known to all, yet somehow tainted by demonic forces. His cultivation was stripped away, making him a laughingstock to the world.

When he appeared before everyone again, his cultivation had advanced even further. He stood behind the Demon Clan's Holy Son with his hands behind his back, surveying the world with indifference.

In Xidunye, there is one ironclad rule: anyone who inherits the demonic path and learns to wield spiritual energy must enter the sacred grounds to cultivate, and may not leave until reaching the Golden Core stage.

But the current Holy Son, Man Zhongyu, was a prodigy beyond compare. At an age when he could barely recite a few poems, he could already use spiritual energy to toy with his father. No matter how reluctant the Demon Lord and Demon Consort were, the clan's old diehards still shoved Man Zhongyu into the sacred grounds.

The spiritual energy in the sacred grounds was volatile, surging through cultivators' meridians with such force that they suffered unbearable agony, trapped between life and death. Man Zhongyu was only five or six years old and could not withstand such bone-deep pain. He cried day and night.

Just then, Gu Lin Tian happened to wander by. Hearing a child wail without end while no one came to help, he split open the sacred grounds with one blow and rescued the battered Holy Son.

Gu Lin Tian went into seclusion, and it took the Demon Clan five years to find him. Only after the Demon Lord personally went to fetch him did the Holy Son return.

The clan strictly forbade anyone from mentioning those five years. The man had never even told him his real name, yet Man Zhongyu held on to those scant memories for three hundred years. On the day he broke through to the Spirit Stillness stage, he was hunted down, but then a man appeared with a spear in hand. Looking back, he saw the old friend from all those years ago, his robes fluttering in the wind.

From then on, Gu Lin Tian became the Demon Clan's Chief Elder, loyally assisting Man Zhongyu.

No one knew the pain Gu Lin Tian bore for another's crime. Fortunately, he found someone who truly loved him. Five hundred years washed away the dust of the past. Clad in black, he stood one step ahead of fate, no longer the same loyal soul he had been in those days.

Theme: The truth will always come to light eventually.