Defying Heaven, I Ascend to Immortality

Throughout the ages, the heavens have set up a chessboard, with the Way of Heaven controlling reincarnation and enslaving all. Mortals believe that by obeying heaven and cultivating, they can ascend to the spirit realm and become immortals, unaware that the so-called spirit realm immortals are merely tools meticulously raised and soul-branded by the Way of Heaven for harvesting; the myriad orthodox paths to immortality are nothing but cages binding sentient beings. Humanity is sealed within the mortal realm, generation after generation accumulating qi and destiny, until the time is ripe when prodigies from the spirit realm descend across realms to slaughter and harvest, a cycle that has continued for eons without cease. Ji Wuji is born into this mortal world of predetermined fate, refusing to kneel to heaven or blindly follow falsehoods. He breaks free from the established cultivation system, treading a unique path of defiance. While others obey heaven to seek immortality, trapped in the chess game for life without freedom, he defies heaven, shattering false immortals and Buddhas, breaking the ancient order of enslavement. Invincibility in the mortal realm is but the starting point; crushing the shackles of the spirit realm and contending with the top-tier chess game of heaven is the true journey. With his own path against the rules of all heavens, with his fists breaking the ancient cages, he breaks free from all manipulation and restraint, not relying on heaven's charity or the crowning of established immortal paths, carving out a truly free and transcendent path amidst the grand chess game—defying heaven, he attains the unique and supreme true immortality. — Description from novelcodex.org