Seventy Thousand Years of Emptiness

On the night of the Heavenly Tribulation at the Taixu Sect, an ancient seal shattered, revealing a skeleton that had sat cross-legged for thousands of years. On a fragment of a sword scabbard was carved a line of blood characters: "My name is Lin Changkong, died at the hands of my closest kin." Three thousand years ago, he was the legendary "Sword Maniac" of the sect, who died in battle without leaving a trace. Three thousand years later, his corpse appeared in a sealed cave, the cause of death a mystery. The newly promoted Supreme Elder Shen Xinghe was ordered to investigate, only to find that all those who knew the truth died one after another in bizarre ways. Locked rooms, severed heart meridians, residual spiritual energy from teleportation arrays—the killer seemed to appear and disappear out of thin air. Even more eerie, deep within each victim's spiritual root was hidden a forgotten "key." And all the keys pointed to the same forbidden object—the Longevity Pill, a divine medicine refined at the cost of cultivators' cultivation and souls. As the investigation deepened, Shen Xinghe discovered that Lin Changkong's death was just the tip of the iceberg. The cultivation system was a lie, the Heavenly Dao a prison, and the entire cultivation world was a sacrifice to a lie that had lasted seventy thousand years. And the "child" imprisoned within the seal, with its deep blue eyes, asked him, "Have you come to save me?" This is a revenge spanning three thousand years, a trial that overturns the order of cultivation. When the truth is revealed, no one can stand aloof. Immortality is a shackle; truth is the key.