Love Against the Dao Through the Ages

Ashen Sea, Sunken Thoughts

Cheng Ye, a peerless genius who appears only once in a century at Qingyang Academy, had a limitless future and a smooth path of cultivation ahead of him. But the merciless heavenly punishment descended, crushing every tender part of his fate.

Heavenly thunder struck the world. The common people were innocent, but love alone was condemned.

Liu Jing, the only light in his life and the sole obsession in his heart, took the purple-gold punishment in his place to save him. Her soul shattered, and she now lies asleep in a lonely grave.

The Heavenly Dao is merciless. It treats love as a heart demon and obsession as a sin, forcibly tearing apart human tenderness and sealing the fate of all living beings.

From that day on, the righteous path lost a gifted cultivator, and the world gained a sinner who defied the Dao.

Cheng Ye turned against the entire path of cultivation, shattered the orthodox way, and entered the forbidden, eternal path of rebellion. Bearing a sky full of regrets and wielding flames that could burn the heavens, he willingly became a heretic reviled by all and marked for death by the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao proclaimed his sentence across the four seas, offered a fortune for his capture, and ordered the world's cultivators to surround and kill the heretic, determined to erase him and every trace of his defiance of fate.

A thousand cultivators encircled the mountain and a great formation locked down his soul. Countless streams of spiritual energy descended upon the desolate grave. Everyone thought the young man would perish among the bones of Massacre Ridge.

But no one knew that the resentful winds sweeping ten thousand miles of burial grounds and the sorrow and regret buried for countless ages were the very resources of his cultivation.

With a single thought, he bore a thousand sorrows. With a single flame, he shattered ten thousand arts. Alone, he broke through the allied army of a thousand cultivators, his rebellious edge shaking the Eastern Domain.

Beneath the abyss, he unexpectedly found a surviving wisp of his beloved's sleeping soul. He also obtained the legacy of ancient sages who had defied the Dao, uncovering the true realms of the heretical path and glimpsing the sealed secrets of those who had defied fate through the ages and met with defeat.

From then on, bearing a thousand regrets and the loneliness of ages, the youth stepped out of the blood-buried wasteland.