Forging the Chaos Cauldron

In the old blacksmith shop of Qingshi Town, there was a youth named Shen Yan. Born with a broken cauldron meridian, he could not condense a life cauldron and was seen as useless by everyone. What he did not know was that deep in his dantian was embedded a fragment of the Chaos Cauldron — the shard of the foremost of the nine cauldrons, and the last bloodline mark of the ancient cauldron guardians. The night the furnace fire activated the fragment, the gears of fate began to turn. He viewed cultivation through the eyes of a blacksmith and understood all laws with the mind of a cauldron caster. Through the ten realms — Shaping the Embryo, Casting the Body, Condensing the Ears, Establishing the Foundation, Inscribing the Runes, Nurturing the Spirit, Suppressing the Mountains, Containing the Seas, Mending the Heavens, and Returning to the Void — he walked a path unlike any other. When the Heavenly Emperor descended, when the Gate of Return to the Void swung open, and when the world faced destruction, the youth who rose from beside the furnace single-handedly reforged the Chaos Cauldron and reshaped the new Heavenly Dao. This is a story about cauldrons, and also a story about people. A cauldron may shatter, but the Dao cannot be extinguished. — Description from novelcodex.org