In the mortal realm lies a land called the Western Frontier, where yellow sand fills the sky and spiritual veins have run dry. The third-rate Ye family is trapped in this desperate place, and the divide between legitimate and illegitimate heirs is cold enough to cut to the bone.
Ye Tianze is the Ye family's overlooked illegitimate son. His mother died when he was young, and he was born with a mixed spiritual root, leaving him with the poorest cultivation aptitude imaginable. While the legitimate heirs receive a steady stream of spirit medicines and spirit stones, all he can do is scavenge their scraps. For eight years, he has trained alone in a ruined courtyard, tempering his body under heavy burdens. Yet he has made it only to the fourth level of Body Tempering, enduring mockery and abuse day after day.
Other cultivators have secret realms, inheritances, and powerful masters to guide them. Ye Tianze has nothing but a body that can endure a thousand cuts and a heart that refuses to bow to fate.
The one-month deadline is approaching, as is the Xuantian Sect's selection. This is his only chance to escape the mire. The road ahead is filled with countless powerful foes and endless trials, with no shortcuts to be found.
He rises from the dust of the mortal realm, taking one blood-soaked step at a time as he crosses the Spirit Realm, traverses the Divine Realm, and ascends to the Immortal Realm.
Most Immortal Kings reach the summit through bloodline treasures and heaven-bestowed fortune. Ye Tianze alone carves out an eternal path for mortals, enduring millennia of lonely cultivation and every hardship across the Three Realms to forge his own Great Dao.
