Chronicles of Breaking the Dao

All races are chess pieces, the Heavenly Dao is the board. A mortal youth emerges from the mist and rain, carrying the sealed origin of all Daos, and meets six companions equally abandoned by the world—an elf, a demon, a spirit, a yao, an ancient Buddha, and a ghost empress. Together, they aim to overthrow the order that the divine race has maintained for eons. This novel is about 'breaking'—breaking the ancient cage built by the divine race in the name of the Heavenly Dao, breaking the stereotypes that immortals are always good and demons always evil, and breaking the shackles of racial hierarchy and fortune plundering. Su Yanchen, Mu Qingyi, Ye Jinxuan, Ling Wanshu, A Man, Xuan Ji, Qian Si, and Shuang Ling—eight cultivators of different origins and races—journey against the current from the mortal world, tearing through the mists of the Middle Thousand Nine Realms, venturing into the divine courts of the Greater Thousand Heavens, and finally reaching the origin of chaos to confront the ultimate order of the Divine Emperor Yao. They aim to shatter the shackles themselves, allowing the nine races to rewrite their own destinies on the ruins, guided by the Dao of the Heart. This is a journey from being defined to self-definition. The novel features nine major races, with the human race having twelve major ranks and the other eight races having nine major ranks. The plot unfolds across four layers of the full map, exploring the same theme: the so-called Heavenly Dao is always the original mind of all beings. This is 'Chronicles of Breaking the Dao'. — Description from novelcodex.org