For ten thousand years, Ye Wuming had never truly lived. He was merely an anomaly in the cycle of Samsara. Through the cursed artifact “Broken Prism of Eternity,” Ye Wuming had died 9,999 times. He had once been the Sword Emperor who cleaved the heavens, a mindless monster that devoured continents, and even a beggar who froze to death in a sewage ditch.
Each death stole a fragment of his memory. Each resurrection eroded his humanity. To him, love was just a boring chemical reaction, and betrayal was merely a recurring statistic. He had mastered the 36 Ancient Daoist Cultivation Realms, yet his soul remained an empty, hollow shell.
However, in his final life—the 10,000th life—the artifact was destroyed.
For the first time in thousands of years, Ye Wuming had no safety net. If he died now, he would vanish forever into absolute void. Ironically, he was at his weakest point: a disabled young man in a forsaken sect on the brink of being purged by cosmic law.
Amid the conspiracy of the Gods seeking to harvest the remnants of his experience from 9,998 lives, Ye Wuming must ascend the 36 Celestial Realms once more. But this time, his goal was no longer immortality—for he had grown tired of it. His goal was to discover: why, amidst endless suffering, did his heart—which should have long been dead—suddenly tremble at the sight of a falling flower petal for the last time?
Between bloodthirsty swords and the ruthless Daoic laws, Ye Wuming will prove that a single mortal life is far sharper than ten thousand years of false eternity.