Lin Feng, a village boy, is declared to have "no spiritual roots and the body of a mortal" during a test at an immortal sect, ending his path to immortality. But he refuses to accept his fate. With only a mortal body, he resolves to carve out a path to the heavens beneath a towering immortal cliff, with his own hands!
With no spiritual roots, he makes his will his blade and his wits his shield. Relying on his exceptional intelligence and iron resolve, he starts out as the lowest kind of servant, seeking opportunities in the most humble places and honing his edge in life-or-death struggles. After an accident, he gains a mysterious breathing technique and a broken jade shard. From then on, he embarks on an ancient path of body cultivation and spiritual consciousness, utterly unlike cultivation through spiritual roots: tempering his body, refining his spiritual consciousness, and proving the Dao through sheer strength!
Strife within the sect, pursuit by the demonic cult, perils in secret realms... His road ahead is thorny and rife with deadly dangers. Lin Feng takes every step with care, growing through adversity and rising anew amid blood and fire. Even a mortal body can shatter divine arts with a punch and crack the stars with a finger!
Meanwhile, the mysterious and aloof young woman Ye Liuli follows him like a shadow. Friend or foe, the two are drawn into a calamity spanning all the way back to ancient times, along with its tangled mysteries.
This is the story of a mortal who reveres neither immortals nor gods, fears neither demons nor monsters, and defies heaven itself to change his fate in this vast, turbulent world, forging a passionate path to immortality all his own!
