Nine Cauldrons Suppress the Divine Land

The sky is shrouded in a golden light membrane, and the earth is cursed by gods. In this god-forsaken land, humans are like ants. Children here cannot live past ten, and the elderly cannot survive beyond sixty. Every three years, a tribute is demanded: grain, beast bones, and human lives. Xia Yu was born and raised here. At three, he practiced horse stance; at six, he carried stones; at eighteen, he hunted wild beasts barehanded. He does not believe in gods or fate, only in his own unyielding spirit. Until one day, a giant divine hand descends from the sky to wipe out the entire village. His father leaps into a dry well, sacrificing himself to awaken a secret buried by their ancestors for nine hundred years—the Nine Cauldrons. "In life, one can die, but cannot kneel." "If there are descendants in later generations, may they use these cauldrons to recast the human soul." Xia Yu hoists the rusted bronze giant cauldron, stands before the gods, and roars to the heavens: "The people here do not kneel!" From the god-forsaken land to the Divine Land where myriad races contend, from a single broken cauldron to the gathering of all nine, he, a mortal, charges against the lofty gods. This is the story of a youth carrying the backbone of his entire clan, defying the heavens.