Lin Xiao, a down-and-out scholar, was thirty-six and had repeatedly failed the imperial examinations. His family fortune was gone, and on his way back to his hometown he was starving and freezing when he took shelter in a dilapidated Taoist temple. There, fate took a turn. A streak of blue light led him to an ancient book containing peerless martial arts. A bolt of heavenly lightning struck him, but instead of killing him, it cleansed and reforged his body, and awakened the memories of his past life as Xiaoyaozi, a Taoist grandmaster.
