Lin Yu was a scholar on his way to take the imperial examinations, but after a stroke of bad luck, he joined an immortal sect. He falls in love with Tao Yan, a Valkyrie, but conflict between sects never lets up. Lin Yu loses all his cultivation and is forced into exile. When a catastrophe threatens the world, Tao Yan sacrifices herself. After weathering trials of the heart, he refuses to submit to fate, breaks free of Heaven’s constraints, and slays his enemies. He successfully attains the Dao and even brings his beloved back from the dead. Along the way, he grows and transforms amid power struggles within the sects and the looming threat of catastrophe.
