Defying the Immortal Path

Lin Chen was a collateral descendant of the Lin family in Qingxuan City, scorned for five years as a "miscellaneous spirit root" waste. On his sixteenth birthday, he awakened an ancient bronze mirror containing remnant soul Jing Lao, who revealed he actually had the legendary Chaotic Spirit Root—sealed since infancy and slowly consuming his life unless freed. Disaster soon struck: the Cangyun Sect besieged the Lin family to seize the mirror, slaughtering his clan and taking his cousin captive. With Jing Lao’s help, Lin Chen barely escaped. He joined minor sect Falling Sunset Valley and fell in love with leader’s daughter Su Yao, but his spirit root was exposed in a secret realm, drawing pursuit from the cultivation world. The Cangyun Sect and allies destroyed the valley, and Su Yao died protecting him. Left with no options, Lin Chen joined the Blood Fiend Sect, where he formed a bond with saintess Xue Liuli, fused immortal and demonic ways to create his own cultivation method, and after a century, took vengeance on his enemies—only to learn the true mastermind was upper realm Immortal Venerable Xuan Tian Dao Zun, who sought his spirit root. Lin Chen vowed to ascend and destroy him. Through trials, he saved Xue Liuli with the Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill, inherited ancient arts, and gathered divine artifacts to unlock an Immortal Emperor’s legacy. In the final battle, he grasped chaos’s true essence of creation, broke through to the Venerable realm, and slew Xuan Tian Dao Zun. However, the Immortal Realm was on the verge of collapse, and only sacrificing his Chaotic Spirit Root could save it. Lin Chen chose to give himself up—his cultivation and life force faded as he died in the arms of loved ones. A hundred years later, the realm flourished, his sacrifice legendary. A Chaos Blossom bloomed on his grave, and in the mortal realm, a young boy bearing his likeness reached toward the sky…