In the thirty-fifth year of the Jiajing reign, Shen Lian, a concubine of the Hanlin Academy, accidentally obtained the fragment of the Kunlun Mirror left by Zheng He, and was involved in a shocking conspiracy that spanned the court and the world of immortality.
When Emperor Jiajing, who was addicted to cultivating immortals, refined immortal puppets from living people, when Yan Song's party members used "Five Stone Powder" to control the spiritual veins of hundreds of officials, when the Japanese Onmyoji's shikigami array enveloped the southeastern coast - this successor of mind science must find a way to cultivate immortality belonging to Confucian scholars between the "investigation of things to achieve knowledge" in the "Four Books and Five Classics" and the "feathering and ascension" of Taoist golden elixirs.
He will study the "Medicine and Body Refining Technique" together with Li Shizhen, form a "Poison Army" with Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, and guard the fire of spiritual learning in the wave of Zhang Juzheng's reform. The line of cause and effect reflected in the Kunlun Mirror is the ancient evil spirit sealed by Emperor Hongwu, the interstellar secrets brought back by Zheng He's treasure ship, and the ultimate test of the "unity of knowledge and action" behind every choice.
When the power struggle in the court encounters Taoist secrets, when Confucian etiquette collides with the poison of Miao border, when the torrent of history envelops the immortality cultivators' desire for immortality - Shen Lian will eventually understand: the true immortality does not lie in the golden elixir in the elixir furnace, but in the elixir heart in the history.
