Heart Abyss I: Twin Stars of Qin and Wu

Young Jun Luo was abandoned on the doorstep of the Yuqing Temple as an infant. At six, when his spiritual roots were tested, the spirit stone vanished into thin air beneath his palm. He had no attributes, something no one had ever seen before. Everyone thought he was destined for an ordinary life, until a Dunyipei fused with his palm and an aged voice told him, "The Heavenly Dao has fifty paths, but the Great Expansion has forty-nine. One escapes. You may not be missing anything. You may be the one who escaped."

From the most inconspicuous disciple of Yuqing Temple, he fought his way to become the foremost of Mount Hua, master of the Nether Candle Platform, and Marquis of the Great Qin Privy Council. He mastered the Great Formless Hand and the Nine Heavens Star-Shattering Spear, claimed strange fires and icy powers, inherited the ancient primordial spirit's legacy of "Yu," gathered the Seven Swords of Sin, and traveled across the Western Regions, the Martial Ruins, the Xuanhuang Celestial Realm, and the Demon Realm.

But the most devastating battle of his life wasn't on a battlefield. The person he loved most stabbed him in the back, with a knife he had personally placed in her hand. He made it out alive. For many years, he sat beneath an apple tree, watching the flowers bloom and fade, watching snow fall and melt. Then he stood, brushed the snow from his shoulders, and walked toward the light.

This is the story of a boy judged to have "no attributes" and how, through loss after loss, he learned to embrace what he had; through betrayal after betrayal, he learned to trust; and even when things failed to turn out as he hoped, he still chose to stand and keep moving forward. It does not shy away from the price, nor does it dwell on it. There are no answers behind the door. The answer lies in the act of opening it.

In a nutshell: He was an abandoned infant with no attributes. He fought his way to becoming a Privy Council Marquis and gathered the Seven Swords of Sin, only for the person closest to him to stab him. He made it out alive. Later, he sat beneath an apple tree and waited for the next spring.