Record of Breaking the Dao in the Dusty World

All races are pieces on the board, and the Heavenly Dao is the game. A young man from the mortal world emerges through mist and rain, carrying the sealed origin of the Ten Thousand Daos. He meets six companions whom the world has also cast aside: an elf, a demon, a spirit, a member of the demon race, an ancient Buddha, and a ghost queen. Together, they will overthrow the order the Divine Race has ruled for eons.

The Record of Dustbound Defiance is about one word: break. Break the eternal cage the Divine Race built in the name of the Heavenly Dao. Break the stale dogma that immortals are always good and demons always evil. Break the bloodline shackles of racial hierarchy and stolen fortune.

Su Yanchen, Mu Qingyi, Ye Jinxuan, Ling Wanshu, A Man, Xuanji, Qiansi, and Shuangling: eight cultivators of different origins and races, rising against the current from the mortal world. They tear through the layers of mystery surrounding the nine domains of the middle thousand worlds, break into the depths of the divine court among the great thousand heavens, and ultimately reach the origin of chaos, where they face the ultimate order of the Divine Emperor Yao. They will smash the shackles themselves, then, upon the ruins, let the nine races take the Dao of the Heart as their measure and rewrite their own fates.

This is a journey from being defined to defining oneself.

The book features nine major races. Its cultivation system has twelve major stages for the human race and nine for each of the other eight races. The plot unfolds through four tiers of maps spanning the whole world, all exploring the same idea: what is called the Heavenly Dao has always been the original hearts of all beings.

This is The Record of Dustbound Defiance.