Lin Ding, a cauldron, has died nine times, each time falling while trying to bring down the righteous path.
Every time he opens his eyes, he returns to the winter night when he was fourteen: the stone prison in the forbidden grounds of the Qingxuan Sect, where the Mysterious Demon Bone Tablet glows faintly against his chest.
With every death, his memories of his past lives grow clearer, and he becomes better at seeing the twisted shapes beneath human skin. He cultivates the Burning Yang Demon-Transformation Art. Mysterious bones gradually form at his shoulders and neck, and flame markings appear on his face. The righteous path condemns him as a half-monster, claiming bone rot has invaded his body. He takes their warning to heart, believing it to be a deadly backlash from cultivating demonic arts.
He kills the sect uncle who lured him into a trap, destroys the Qingxuan headquarters, and razes all thirty-six branch altars. Under the name Flame Demon, he strikes terror into the cultivation world. Only in his sixth life does he glimpse the shocking deception: the so-called holy land of the righteous path is no more than a false world woven from pure-yang illusions, and everyone had already been transformed in the bone-rot catastrophe a thousand years ago.
In his seventh life, he traces the truth back to the primordial age. As he looks at the Mysterious Demon Bone Tablet, drained of its pure yang and abandoned on a battlefield, a chill runs through him. Was he truly an inheritor chosen by the magical artifact, or...
When he opens his eyes for the tenth time, he no longer rushes to seek revenge.
This time, he will shatter this thousand-year illusion and uncover the truth: who is he, really?
