Ye Chen was reduced to ashes by the Sun's True Fire atop Mount Hua, and his soul fell into another world, the primordial wilderness.
He watched the stone monkey smash through the forests and enter the Three Stars Cave, and Ye Chen gave in to one last burst of reckless desperation.
He swallowed fire poison and broke his bones learning to fly, all to get close enough to that sacred ground to overhear a single trace of the Dao.
The Patriarch Bodhi had already discovered this foreign soul...
But within the walls of the Three Stars Cave, a junior disciple of the Golden Crow was destined to join them.
