Ash blankets Basho Valley. Yuan King demon beasts trample the homeland, and his parents give their lives to hold them off, all to protect the ancient Zhenhuang Cauldron passed down through generations.
The disaster was no accident. The demon lord Zhishi laid a vast net and swept across the Southern Border, all to search for the Nine Cauldrons.
Zhou Yu, born with a Heavenly Spirit Root unseen in ten thousand years, does not despair as his clan faces annihilation. He foresees the calamity, organizes the clanspeople's escape, and uses a broken cauldron to face the demon beasts head-on. A heart demon takes root in his sea of blood and vengeance, and murderous intent constantly gnaws at his spirit. One careless step could send him plunging into an abyss of slaughter.
In the ruined valley, he begs for neither mercy nor charity. Instead, he intercepts Xiao Yu as she travels alone and stakes everything on a three-year pact, winning himself a path west to train.
The road ahead stretches for thousands of miles, with demons and monsters blocking the way. Human cultivators harbor their own schemes, and the secret of the Nine Cauldrons stirs the entire Yuan Continent.
He travels west with the cauldron in hand, to protect his clanspeople and avenge his family, but above all to forge a Great Dao of his own between vengeance and his true nature.
