Above the Mystic Firmament 1

Three thousand years after the Calamity of Heaven, the Heavenly Dao shattered, and no one in the world could become a god. Shen Ci, a sixteen-year-old outer disciple of Qingyun Sect, had five mismatched spiritual roots and a leaking dantian. At the Spirit-Testing Ceremony, he was publicly declared to have “no hope of ever reaching Foundation Establishment.” No one knew that the boy everyone mocked as a good-for-nothing carried a damaged ancient relic: a Fragmented Scroll of Fate, which could glimpse fate, alter fate, and even defy the heavens to change fate. But the Heavenly Dao never makes a losing bargain. Every time he changed fate, another strand of his black hair turned white. Every act of defiance against the heavens cost him years of his life. From a good-for-nothing trampled into the mud to someone who astonished the entire cultivation world, Shen Ci changed fate every step of the way: his own, the fates of those around him, and the schemes of his enemies. Then one day, the final page of the scroll opened, revealing four words: Change the Fate of Heaven and Earth. Only then did he see the truth: the Calamity of Heaven three thousand years ago had not been a natural disaster, but a carefully plotted murder. The so-called “repair of the heavens” was really “usurpation of the heavens.” The Heavenly Dao was nothing more than a law-bound web riddled with holes, and behind that web lurked a “god” who had been moving the pieces for three thousand years. Infighting among fellow disciples, the dark secrets of the sect, a fateful cultivation bond, and rebirth in the depths of the abyss: the white-haired youth would face death and live, ascending to heaven one step at a time. This time, he would change the fate of the Heavenly Dao. Every strand of the young man's white hair was a declaration of war against the heavens.