A Mortal Defies Fate and Ascends to the Nine Heavens

He has no peerless spiritual roots, no sect to protect him, and no ancient inheritance to rely on. He is just the most ordinary young mortal in the world. Everyone says that talent and background are the steps to ascending the immortal path, and that mediocre folk deserve nothing but a grave in the dust. But he refuses to accept his fate. He survives in the cracks of a chaotic age, struggling amid flashing blades and raging fires. Demon beasts devour him, fellow cultivators stab him in the back, and Heaven's will suppresses him. One hardship after another follows, and countless times he comes close to death and the destruction of his soul. If no opportunity comes his way, he fights for a chance to live with his own flesh and blood. If the Great Way shows him no favor, he will carve out a path to immortality himself. A thousand calamities, ten thousand trials: a mortal body defies Heaven's will. After countless ordeals between life and death, and crossing mountains of piled bones, he uses nothing but ordinary talent to break through the world's constraints, shatter the gates of the Nine Heavens, and ultimately ascend to the upper realm, proving to the world that mortals, too, can pluck the stars.