Lin Feng, a genius disciple of the Qingyun Sect, has his cultivation crippled and is cast out after being accused of stealing the sect's supreme treasure, the Nine-Turn Golden Pill. He is reduced to an ordinary mortal.
On a rainy night, he takes shelter in a ruined temple, only to be hunted by a mysterious pursuer. At the brink of death, he is saved by Ling Xue, a senior sister from his sect, and learns of a shocking plot:
The legendary Chaos Dao Seed has been planted inside him. The sect raised him, bestowed a golden pill on him, and even crippled his cultivation, all to nurture the seed. The day it matures will be the day he dies!
The Nine-Turn Golden Pill is his only hope of suppressing the seed.
Lin Feng swallows the pill and rebuilds his dantian, but in doing so awakens the Dao Seed.
From then on, he flees for his life with a young beggar called Little Stone, struggling to survive between the mortal world and the path to immortality.
With one thought, he is a mortal, shackled by the daily grind. With another, he becomes an immortal, his sword pointed at the heavens and old grudges!
Can he forge a new path of cultivation and uncover the darkness behind the sect?
Is the Chaos Dao Seed a curse, or a chance to become immortal?
Hardened by the mortal world, he walks a blood-soaked path to immortality. In this life, he asks only:
Immortal or mortal, my fate is mine to decide, not Heaven's!
