The human way shines brilliantly, while the immortal way stretches into the distance. Yu An has no spiritual aperture or fate with immortality, making him a hopeless cultivator from the start.
His blind grandfather is gravely ill, and the woman he loves is about to marry someone else. Things couldn't have started worse.
His luck is poor and every step is difficult, until Yu An happens upon a pearl containing the divine consciousness of an Immortal Lord. Using the cultivation arts within to carve open his apertures and awaken his spirit, he breaks through the divide between mortals and immortals and sets foot on the path to immortality...
After a thousand years of treading carefully and generations of painstaking scheming, he looks back to find the Yu clan of Runan has become a prestigious family. They attain the supreme Dao and rule the Jade Capital Heaven...