A Fortuitous Encounter in Cultivation

This is a cultivation world where five great sects stand alongside one another, and the strong prey on the weak.

Su Xiaohao, a young man from an ordinary village, joins the great eastern sect Wanyang Sect through a twist of fate, only to vanish unexpectedly for three years during a trial in the Wilderness. When he returns, his cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds, but his golden core is shattered during a crisis involving demonic cultivators in Wuyuan Town, forcing him onto the path of breaking through to build anew and forming a second golden core. Bearing the power of spiritual herbs that has lain dormant within him for years, he wields Nascent Soul-level strength despite being at the Foundation Establishment stage. In a cultivation world rife with deceit and betrayal, he holds fast to his principles and defies the heavens.

At his side is Yinyin, a nine-tailed silver fox of the Silver Fox Clan, born with two souls sharing one body, a rarity unseen in a thousand years. The massacre that befell her clan in childhood and a century of imprisonment in a black prison have left her with a blood feud to settle. During the battle in Wuyuan Town, her bloodline awakens, and her elder sister's soul, dormant for a thousand years, stirs. At last, the two souls reconcile. Cold and decisive, yet also gentle and sincere, she and Su Xiaohao grow closer day by day as they uncover the secrets of her people and raise their blades against their enemies.

The competition among the five great sects, held once every fifteen years, begins. The perilous Frost Domain Secret Realm, from which none return, conceals a shocking secret. In Qingyu City, the Yu Family uses its ties to Shadowmoon Mountain to force a marriage pact, as old and new grudges intertwine. Within Wanyang Sect, Third Elder Geng Ming covets the Silver Fox's essence and secretly lays a deadly trap. Deep in the mountains, the late-Nascent Soul Black Wind Patriarch and his rogue cultivators watch hungrily. Beneath the deep sea, the hundred-year scheme of the black flood dragon Chi Liang has never ceased.

The young man raises his sword, with the fox's shadow at his side. Together, they suppress bandits, brave dangerous places, fight the wicked, and avenge blood debts.