The Abyss Between Worlds spans heaven and earth, its depths teeming with countless races surging upward like a tide. Humanity builds cities along the Abyss and relies on formation arts to survive. A thousand years of bloodshed have won them no more than a brief respite.
Shen Yuan is the son of a condemned criminal from Luoyuan City. His mother was transformed by the Abyss, and his father is unknown. From the moment he was born, people called him an “Abyss Spawn.” Forbidden blood condemned by humanity runs through his veins, yet his eyes can see the paths of spiritual energy. His talent for formation arts is unmatched.
At fourteen, the Abyssal energy resonates within him, and his condemned blood awakens. An inspector from Zhenyuan City takes him away. Ahead lie a spiritual meridian examination at the Formation Academy, the Abyss Barrier trials, and a truth that could overturn everything humanity believes:
Ten thousand years ago, humanity and the Abyssal race were one. Spiritual energy and spirit-corrosion were originally two sides of the same power. To monopolize its source, powerful humans severed the two worlds with their own hands, slandering the other half of that power as “spirit-corrosion” and denouncing those of their own kind who refused separation as “Abyss-transformed.”
And the Abyssal Emperor Lie, sealed in the deepest depths and cursed for generations, was none other than the first Abyss Warden.
Shen Yuan rises from the condemned quarters to Zhenyuan City, from the Formation Academy to the Abyss's ten thousandth level. He has seen Abyss-transformed people retain their sanity, only to be executed by their own kin. He has seen that Abyssal civilians are no different from humans. He has seen the millennia-old order built on lies by the Zhenyuan Council. His mother is imprisoned on the Abyss's fourth level; his adoptive father lost his spiritual meridians protecting him. The condemned blood in his veins is both a shackle and a key.
“Your condemned blood isn't a sin. It's a key.”
As the Abyssal tide erupts in full, the seal crumbles completely, and the survival of both humanity and the Abyssal race hangs by a thread, Shen Yuan faces his ultimate choice:
Maintain the lie that has lasted ten thousand years, or
