Modern young man Lin Feng unexpectedly transmigrates into the primordial world, becoming the impoverished illegitimate son of the remote Lin family. Just as the family is torn by a struggle between legitimate and illegitimate heirs and besieged by enemies, it faces the threat of annihilation at any moment. In this desperate situation, he awakens the Primordial Dao Foundation within him, gaining the ability to deduce supreme cultivation techniques and devour turbid energy to transform it into spiritual energy. From then on, he embarks on a path of cultivation and Renegade Immortal-style rising against the odds.
He joins the Qingyun Immortal Sect, taking on inner-sect prodigies as an outer-sect disciple and humiliating the old-fashioned elders. He meets Qingyao, a Saintess descended from the demon race and burdened by a curse. The two face life and death together, and their feelings for each other deepen. Returning home to settle the family’s internal strife, he uncovers the astonishing secret that the Lin family descends from the former imperial house. He joins forces with fallen members of the royal clan to oppose the powerful court minister who holds sway over the empire.
From treasure hunts in secret realms to clashes for supremacy across the land, he breaks through nine major cultivation realms, advancing from the mortal realm’s foundation-building stage to the Saint realm’s quasi-sage stage. He exposes the scheme of the ultimate antagonist, Mo Chenzi, a demonic giant disguised as an elder of the righteous path. Mo Chenzi bears a longstanding grudge against Lin Feng’s father and plots to seize the Primordial Dao Foundation, overturn the order of the primordial world, and even conspire with extraterrestrial fiends to unleash a calamity.
Lin Feng rallies the righteous factions and leads the allied forces against the demonic chaos. On the final battlefield in the Shattered Lands, he breaks through his limits in the face of life and death, proves the Dao as a Primordial Great Golden Immortal, kills the antagonist, seals the rift to the outer realms, revives Qingyao, and restores order to the primordial world. From an illegitimate son on the frontier, he ultimately rises to become the Primordial Sovereign who commands the myriad heavens and is remembered throughout the ages.
