Ling Yuan was born into a rural family that favored sons over daughters. At just seven, her parents sold her to be a child bride for a family in the neighboring village. But before the wedding procession could reach its destination, it was intercepted by a band of assassins, and her husband died before she ever entered his home. By chance, Ling Yuan saves Lin Xishan, the badly wounded sect leader of the Tianquan Sect, and tends to her wounds with medicinal herbs...
Lin Xishan was once a maid serving Nangong Ping, the former leader of Lingque Mountain. Determined to challenge the deep-rooted gender prejudice of the cultivation world and win women the right to cultivate, she went from an illiterate maid to someone who mastered cultivation techniques through her own efforts and intelligence. She also became a renowned healer and eventually founded her own sect, the Tianquan Sect...
An unexpected turn of events makes them master and disciple, and Ling Yuan embarks on the path of cultivation...