Lu Chen was born in a border city in the Northern Wastelands. He had a "severed meridian" from birth and was judged incapable of cultivation for the rest of his life. On the night the city fell, he found a piece of black jade, dormant for ten thousand years, among the ruins of his ancestral home. It awakened the "Emberfire" sealed within him.
Emberfire could burn all things and devour the world's lingering spirits to remake his meridians. But each time he used it, he moved one step further away from being human.
To find his missing father and uncover the truth behind his mother's brutal death, Lu Chen entered the cultivation world. Along the way, he met Su Qinglan, the cool and aloof heroine, who bore a heaven-appointed destiny. She was a saintess from an immortal sect in the Upper Realm, abandoned in the mortal world. But because of the calamity foretold as "Emberfire Devours the Heavens," her sect ordered her to sever her ties of affection and kill Lu Chen.
