World Cloud

Ten thousand ages endure, and the cycle of calamity repeats. The clouds have nine layers, and the world has nine realms.

There is a force in heaven and earth called Xuan Yuan. Those who cultivate it pass through seven realms: Yuanxuan, Huaji, Xiutian, Bunie, Tiandi, Tiansheng, and Emperor. Legend says that anyone who reaches the Emperor Realm can control the rise and fall of an entire world. Yet in all the ages, no one has reached the summit again, because that path was broken long ago.

When a cultivator dies, the things they spent their life refining do not disappear. They drift through heaven and earth, becoming shortcuts everyone fights over. Swallow one, and your cultivation surges. Swallow ten, and you ascend on the spot.

Shen Yunchu was born without roots. Xuan Yuan energy would flow into him, only to leak away within half an hour. Everyone told him that he would never succeed in cultivation.

Until, in a dry well, he fished out the last wisp of residual energy from the Emperor Realm.

Others swallowed it to climb higher. He swallowed it because he wanted to give all those who had died somewhere to go.