In a lotus pond amid chaos, a heavenly tribulation struck from the unseen realm. Every lotus and fish in the pond returned to the cycle of reincarnation, and the soul of the Azure Lotus was reborn as Xuan Yusheng, a hunter’s son in a village in the mortal realm. It was now two thousand years after the Calamity of the Hong Era. Spiritual energy in the mortal realm had dried up, and in all those two thousand years, only one cultivator had ascended to the Immortal Realm. As Yusheng lay dying while being hunted, he acquired a mysterious divine soul and gained strange powers. When he returned to his village, he discovered it had been destroyed. Bent on revenge, he was taken in as a disciple by a cultivator from a sect who was out on a trial, and so his path of cultivation began.
He devoted himself to cultivation only so he could find his enemies and avenge his entire village, yet everywhere he went, others pushed him aside. Gradually, he realized that the cultivators and sects he had long admired were every bit as vile as the rest. As he uncovered the truth piece by piece and grew stronger, he unraveled layer after layer of conspiracy. Along the way, he encountered the reincarnations of those beings from the lotus pond, until at last he stood at the pinnacle of the entire planet…
