The Legend of the Supreme Great Celestial Venerable

During a tomb-robbing expedition, Lin Zhu, a novice tomb robber, was killed inside the tomb by his companions after offering a well-meaning warning. He was forced to share his grave with a statue of the Daoist deity Haotian Jinque Wushang Zhizun Ziran Miaoyou Miluo Zhizhen Yuhuang Shangdi.

As it happened, the Great Heavenly Venerable Jade Emperor was joining with the world alongside the Three Pure Ones of Daoism, the Two Saints of the West, the Holy Mother of Humanity, the Three Sovereigns of Humanity, the Four Emperors, the Great Emperor Dongji Qinghua, and the Ancestor of Daoism, making sixteen supreme beings in all.

Across the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands, the remaining five realms, and the Three Thousand Worlds, the highest divine seats remained vacant. The Great Heavenly Venerable Jade Emperor, the last supreme being to join with the world and the one who would decide who inherited sovereignty over the world’s highest laws, happened to see Lin Zhu at the moment he was hesitating.

After examining Lin Zhu’s past and character, the Great Heavenly Venerable Jade Emperor decided to entrust him with dominion over all the laws of that world, leaving him a letter.

From that moment on, Lin Zhu became the true Haotian Jinque Wushang Zhizun Ziran Miaoyou Miluo Zhizhen Yuhuang Shangdi. Everything in the Six Realms and the Three Thousand Worlds came under his sole rule, beyond the restraint of any other being.

But the price of becoming supreme was the loss of his humanity, his emotions, and his desires. Lin Zhu had only just ascended to supreme status and still retained his humanity. Now he faced a challenge unlike anything he, or any living or dead being across the Six Realms and the Three Thousand Worlds, had ever encountered...