Ye Chen is an ordinary game power-leveling player, spending day and night between reality and virtual worlds, making a living through his love of games and superb skills. Lin Yuan is an online writer obsessed with the supernatural, fascinated by the world's unsolved mysteries and eager to seek the truth through his writing.
An accident upends both their peaceful lives. As Ye Chen logs into the popular cultivation game, Path to Immortality, a strange beam of light from his computer pulls him into a mysterious forest. At the same time, Lin Yuan is researching an ancient text when a ghostly green glow envelops him and carries him to an abandoned manor.
In the forest, Ye Chen encounters Chu Yao under attack by a demonic beast. He comes to her aid with the swordsmanship he learned in the game, and the two set off together to explore this unknown world. But they soon discover that danger lurks everywhere and countless secrets remain hidden. In the manor, Lin Yuan finds a mysterious diary describing forbidden rituals connected to the Cthulhu Mythos. Just as he is puzzling over it, footsteps approach, and danger quietly draws near.
Different worlds, but the same mysteries and dangers. Though Ye Chen and Lin Yuan had never crossed paths, their fates are now intertwined by this accident. Can they unravel the mysteries of their respective worlds and find a way home? And what sparks will fly during this extraordinary adventure?
