After being abandoned by his fiancée and exiled from his sect, Adrian Vale awakened the Abyssal Serpent—a spirit beast dismissed as worthless by all. Bound by a blood pact, he and the serpent evolved together. They consumed. They rose. They became something the world had never seen. In the final battle, Adrian merged with the serpent and ascended as the Dragon Emperor. He shattered the false gods, tore down the old order, and rewrote the rules of existence—so that all beings, great or small, could stand as equals.