A meteor fell from the heavens at the world's dawn, scattering fragments across the land. One piece crashed into the Eastern Continent and became the foundation for The Tradition, a system of martial cultivation that defined civilization for millennia. Now, in a time when that ancient power shapes every corner of society, a fourteen-year-old orphan named Chen Chang Shang abandons his isolated training to chase an impossible goal: curing a disease that marks him as cursed and fundamentally broken. Armed only with a mysterious marriage vow and the skills his master taught him, Chang Shang heads toward the capital, where warriors train under prestigious sects and power flows through bloodline and ambition. His journey becomes a collision between fate and defiance, between the weight of his illness and the pull of something greater stirring within him. As he meets others on similar paths, questions emerge about what The Tradition truly is, whether destiny can be rewritten, and what power lies dormant in an outcast boy willing to stand against the world's established order.