Across the entire Cangxuan Continent, everyone cultivated a spiritual root, drew spiritual energy into their bodies, and embarked on the path to immortality.
Only Shen Yan bore the continent's one and only Heaven-Devouring Immortal Poison Root.
This root was branded a useless root of the ages. It could not absorb even a trace of spiritual energy, and instead devoured his blood essence and soul day and night. He would not live to see twenty.
His sect abandoned him, his fellow disciples mocked him, and his childhood sweetheart left him. They all believed he was a born failure, a lump of mud that could never be shaped.
Then, on the brink of death, Shen Yan awakened the legacy of the Eternal Poison Venerable!
A useless poison root?
How could this be a useless root!
It was the source of all poisons, a taboo of the Heavenly Dao, a supreme divine root capable of poisoning Immortal Venerables to death and suppressing gods and demons!
Others cultivated by absorbing spiritual energy; he cultivated by devouring every poison, growing stronger with every dose!
Others sought a chance of survival through tribulation; he tempered his poisoned body with heavenly tribulations and defied the heavens!
Those who once mocked, abandoned, and bullied me,
when I, Shen Yan, emerge into the world,
any immortal who stands in my way will be poisoned, any god who stands in my way will be poisoned. Beneath the myriad paths of the heavens, all will be nothing but bones withered by my poison!
