The spiritual tide between heaven and earth has been waning for ten thousand years. The limits of cultivation have fallen again and again, and everyone says the path of cultivation has reached its end. Lu Chenzhou, a young man with crippled meridians from Linyuan City, is publicly humiliated during his spiritual aptitude test and expelled from the main family. A broken stele and a volume called the Heaven-Sundering Scripture: the legacy of the ancient ones who severed the path, which has chosen this boy who cannot cultivate. He will swim against the tide and deduce new laws, using his crippled meridians to wrench the dying world itself back from the brink. But what exactly lies sealed beyond the nine heavenly pillars?