A Mortal's Path to Immortality

Note: The pace is lightning-fast. One man, one blade, rampaging through the nine heavens and ten lands, slaying gods and demons alike. In the autumn of the 370th year of the Dayong era, at the foot of Miasma Ridge in the Southern Borderlands, sixteen-year-old herb farmer Shen Huaizhi accidentally stumbles into the ruins of an ancient battlefield while gathering herbs. There, he awakens the spirit-bound black blade, Nethermoon. On the very day of his awakening, bandits from Black Wind Stronghold massacre Shen Village. Carrying his gravely wounded, dying sister, Shen Huaizhi flees into the mountains. At the moment between life and death, the black blade emerges and slaughters their pursuers, drawing the attention of Zhao Wuya, an inspector from the Heavenly Sword Sect. During the sect’s grand competition, the black blade’s strange power is exposed, drawing him into an astonishing game of intrigue involving the Southern Borderlands’ demonic sects and the thousand-year pact among the Nine Great Immortal Sects. Cultivation realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Core Essence, Spirit Transformation, Golden Core, Heavenly Inquiry. Void Refinement, Immortal Sage, Heavenly Realm, Nirvana. Reincarnation, Complete Sainthood, Wuji, Extraordinary.