This world is divided into five great immortal domains: East, West, South, North, and Central. The protagonist, Zhang Qingtian, has been possessed by a demonic soul since childhood, though he doesn’t know it. He grows up in Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie, where strange things constantly happen around him because of the demonic soul. A powerful cultivator places the Heavenly Secret Seal, one of the Ten Ancient Seals, on him, suppressing the demon within.
Tianshan is home to Wanjian Valley, a renowned cultivation sect known throughout the world. Like countless others, Zhang Qingtian dreams of becoming a famous hero like Long Aotian, the sect’s founding patriarch. By a stroke of luck, he gets into Wanjian Valley and fulfills his wish of becoming a disciple. But the Heavenly Secret Seal blocks his body from storing qi. Though he is one of the hardest-working disciples, he is also the weakest. Unable to store qi, he comes in last among his fellow disciples, breaking one record for worst performance after another and becoming the sect’s biggest laughingstock, despised by all. Then one day, his seal begins to loosen, and he discovers that all the qi he thought he had lost was still there. From then on, he stages a spectacular comeback, gradually becoming a formidable cultivator in his own right. His demonic power also helps him make a name for himself at the Immortal Sects’ Grand Assembly.
Before Zhang Qingtian can celebrate, the God of Fusang, Tianyu, leads the Eastern Immortal Domain in a sudden invasion. Centuries of peace among the heavenly domains are shattered. The Fusang gods wield bizarre and extraordinary techniques, plunging the Central Immortal Domain into an unprecedented crisis. More troubling still, the Western Immortal Domain, the strongest after the Celestial Emperor, has also begun eyeing the Central Domain. As the Southern and Northern Immortal Domains join the fray, the Third War of the Gods begins...
