The Wood Tribulation: Defying Blood and Treading the Heavens

A young cultivator discovers that his sect's spiritual root is actually a man-eating demon tree. He steals the only thing capable of destroying it and flees for his life. In the end, he joins forces with the immortal maiden sent to hunt him down, exposes the lie of ascension that has endured for ten thousand years, and seeks a path for ordinary mortals amid the ruins of the cultivation system.