At forty-two, Lin Yun was trapped by loan sharks. To escape their violent debt collection and protect his wife, Su Wan, he divorced her. The debt collector Zhao Long tracked him down with his men, beat him, and threatened to kill his parents and sell his ex-wife. Driven to desperation, Lin Yun killed three of them, then fell into a deep chasm in the mountains while fleeing the authorities.
In the chasm, he encountered the dying remnant soul of Xuan Chenzi, a powerful cultivator from another world, and became his disciple. With the pills and spirit stones Xuan Chenzi left behind, Lin Yun cultivated from an ordinary mortal to the Nascent Soul realm in just three years. After his supplies ran out and his master’s remnant soul dissipated, Lin Yun left the cave and took in his son, Lin Yu, and Ye Zixi, deputy Dragon-Taming Envoy of Mingzhou, as disciples. By a twist of fate, he ended up sleeping with Ye Zixi...
