The heaven and the earth are ovens, and all things are like civet dogs. All living beings are looking for a chance of survival on the path of spiritual practice, hoping to transcend the cycle of life and death.
Gu Chen, a mortal in the Qingxuan Sect who has no chance of becoming an immortal, works as a "bone painter" - he paints the remains of his fellow disciples who have passed away and comforts the souls with pictures. In this forgotten and quiet building, he discovered a shocking secret: death is not the end, and the powerful soul and obsession of the deceased will leave a "reverberation of the Tao" in the world.
People in the world practice by inhaling spiritual energy from heaven and earth; but Gu Chen's practice is guided by his pen, listening to the echoes of the dead, tracing the reverberations, and catching a glimpse of the skills, understanding of magical powers, and insight into the buried truth from the last will of the deceased.
When the portraits of the deceased are completed one after another under his pen, he is not only preserving the last dignity of the deceased, but also stealing the power that belongs to death. This unprecedented and deviant path of cultivation is destined to make him an enemy of the order of the entire world of immortality. When everyone thought he was just a mortal painter lingering on the edge of the Immortal Sect, he had already stepped onto the throne of thorns leading to immortality under countless death gazes.
