Zhao Lin, a top student in the Chinese department at Blue Star, takes up martial arts for love but dies tragically in the ring. His soul travels to another world where Confucianism and martial arts coexist.
Here, literary talent can move heaven and earth, with poetry summoning wondrous signs in the skies. True energy can shatter stone, and a fist can shake mountains and rivers.
Carrying the entire treasury of Chinese poetry within him, he passes the county examination with “Spring View,” drawing a torrent of literary talent into his body; makes a name for himself on the northern frontier by suppressing demons with “Man Jiang Hong”; and stuns the palace examination with “Snow, to the Tune of Qin Yuan Chun,” revealing a sacred vision of the Way. He becomes a Confucian-martial arts champion unlike any in history!
War clouds gather across a ravaged land, and the demon race tears at its borders.
Zhao Lin journeys alongside three extraordinary confidantes.
The cool and composed Sage of Letters Su Qingxue wields her brush to mend the heavens.
The renowned musician Liu Yanyu plays a song to bring peace to the people.
The woman warrior Ling Wei guards the blood-soaked rivers and mountains with her sword.
From a poor scholar to commander of the northern frontier, he establishes a new school of practical sciences and founds an army to defend the Way.
But then the apocalyptic demon calamity arrives. The Lesser Sage Shiyue tears apart sky and sea, turning thousands of miles of land to scorched earth.
At the edge of despair, Zhao Lin ventures into the Gui Ruins in search of the spark of life, and uncovers the secret behind the incomplete Sacred Way.
In the final battle, he fuses everything he has learned, the wisdom of Blue Star, and the will of all living beings, then roars “The Song of the Primordial Dao” into the rift in the void.
Its rhythm becomes the loom of the Heavenly Dao, its righteousness the warp and weft. One song mends the universe!
Thus the primordial world is set in order. The revered sage of Confucian martial arts establishes a sacred academy to educate all races, and with his three beloved companions, writes an everlasting legend of “civil learning that secures the realm, and martial might that guards its mountains and rivers.”
