Modern special-ops soldier Chu Kuang travels to the lightless cultivation world, awakening the ability to devour and kill cultivators to absorb their power. Crawling out of a mass grave, he proves the Dao through slaughter, befriending the half-demon Su Wan, body cultivator Tien Niu, and the old blind man. He fights his way through evil cultivation sects and the Nine Heavens of the Heavenly Court, transforming into the sun to bring back the light. The master of the Beyond-Heaven awakens, and the resentment of thirty-seven worlds scatters across the human realm. Chu Kuang travels throughout the human realm to clear away the resentment, ultimately fighting a decisive battle against the Heavenly Emperor to plant thirty-seven world seeds back into the earth veins, making the human realm thirty-seven times larger. Gods are not in the heavens; they reside within everyone who refuses to kneel.