The upheaval in Blackstone Town, the boy from the Land of Sin, the destruction of Heaven's Mandate

Blackstone Town was a desolate backwater tucked away in a remote corner, where spiritual energy was thin.

The town's strongest cultivators had only reached mere middle Qi Refining. Like frogs at the bottom of a well, they eked out their lives in this tiny patch of land.

Yet today, this town of stagnant waters welcomed a seemingly unremarkable... Qi Refining cultivator.

He stepped into the town, his coarse hemp clothes snapping in the fierce wind.

Though he was only a Qi Refining cultivator, the energy around him was condensed into a seamless whole, without a single flaw.

The rough spirit of a wandering outlaw seeped from his very bones.

He was a boy.

Windblown sand swept across his youthful face, resolute as bedrock, etching it with the weathering of the years.

He wore a bamboo hat and a straw rain cape, with a dry blade of grass cocked between his lips. His stride carried a carefree air, as though he thought nothing of heaven and earth.

His name was Mu Changkang, and he claimed to hail from the Northern Land of Sin.

It should be called the Land of Sin, right?

He murmured inwardly, his gaze somewhat distant.

Who could have imagined that he had originally been a mere farmer, his face toward the yellow earth and his back toward the sky,

working at sunrise and resting at sunset, his only dreams the world of grudges, love, and vengeance in the tales told over tea, and those lofty cultivators?

Yet one day, he had fallen into the water, awakened from a great dream, and found himself in this bizarre and dazzling Supreme True Realm!

He had emerged from wild, desolate mountains, refined his qi back to the innate state, and obtained a heaven-defying opportunity.

Originally a worthless body without spiritual