The Tyrant's Anvil: Forging the Heavens' Demise
By @john1208
Nie Ruhai is serving a heavenly sentence. Stripped of his god-like cultivation, he must spend a millennium as a mortal blacksmith in the desolate Ash-Bone Village. He is quiet, unassuming, and entirely ruthless when crossed. When a seventy-year-old mortal named Ma Jianzhou is brutally beaten and rejected by the Crimson Furnace Citadel for being 'too old to cultivate', Nie Ruhai takes him in simply to strike iron. He teaches the old man the rhythm of the hammer, treating his brittle bones like slag to be purified. Shockingly, the old man’s relentless hammering resonates with a forgotten physical Dao, turning him into an unstoppable, elderly juggernaut who begins snapping the jade swords of arrogant prodigies with his bare, calloused hands. Sect elders laugh at the duo, unaware that their mockery is the prelude to their brutal execution. The darkest truth, however, lies in the rusted anvil. Nie Ruhai’s past self deliberately engineered this exact punishment, and this specific disciple, to shatter the Heavenly Dao from the inside out. When the final strike falls, will the Heavens survive the monster they locked away?
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