Chronicles of the Mystic Wasteland Calamity

The myriad domains of Xuanhuang face an impending catastrophe. In the borderlands, the Shen family of Qingyan is home to Shen Yan, a young man from a collateral branch who lives in the poorest of lands. Stripped of resources and burdened with humiliation, he struggles to cultivate amid countless scornful stares. When torrential rain triggers a landslide, he finds an unremarkable, rusted broken saber in an underground ruin. Sealed inside the blade is Shuangyan, an ancient artifact spirit. Normally, they can only communicate through divine thoughts, and Shuangyan will act just once when death is at hand. No heavenly power will come to his aid. He must carve out every path with his own fists and blade. He leaves his impoverished homeland, crosses the boundless wastelands, battles the sacred lands of Qingzhou, and breaks through the sea of clouds above the nine heavens. He grows stronger as he travels, traversing the perilous reaches of the myriad heavens. At an immeasurable cost, he helps Shuangyan break free from the constraints of the blade and forge a divine body of the Primordial Ruins. Xuanjin, lurking for countless ages, emerges into the world, intent on overturning the old order and remaking Heaven and Earth. The young man faces Primordial Ruins powerhouses at the pinnacle of the Yaoming Realm and is defeated in a bloody battle. At the brink of death, he shatters the world's constraints and ascends to the peak of the Hongmeng Realm of No Delusion. The rusted blade rings out against the apocalyptic flames. The fate of all beings should never be left for one person alone to decide.