Has the Heavenly Dao Always Been Mad?

This world has been mired in chaos for ages. War, strife, and slaughter have never ceased. Luo Minsheng was born to tenant farmers and grew up working the land to survive. He witnessed neighbors turning against one another and people driven mad. Others were either ruthless killers or fanatical extremists, but he alone stayed true to himself, treating his neighbors with kindness and respecting life. He stood out against the world's twisted ways. When he was seventeen, a peerless prodigy from one of the world's foremost immortal sects, a universally acclaimed and immaculate saintess, fell to demonic corruption over a tribulation of love, and her Dao heart shattered completely. Under the influence of this world's extreme Heavenly Dao, her nature warped into obsessive madness. One fit of anger unleashed a devastating slaughter, killing every living thing within a hundred square kilometers. Bustling towns, dozens of villages, and thousands upon thousands of people were reduced in an instant to scorched earth and a sea of blood. The tenant farmers' village where Luo Minsheng lived lay at the very heart of the calamity. Every villager, young and old, perished. Not one survived. When disaster struck, Luo Minsheng was alone in the mountains gathering herbs. On the way, a vicious beast attacked him. Fighting for his life with an ordinary sickle, he battled the beast through grievous wounds and a torrent of blood, ultimately driving it off. Because this chance encounter kept him in the mountains, he became the sole survivor in a hundred-mile stretch of death.