Chen Yu, a young man who has just started college, sets off for the remote Changbai Mountains with Han Bin and Wen Linlin at his father’s suggestion. He thinks it will be nothing more than an ordinary pre-semester workout, but then he discovers that cultivation is real. Just as the three begin to believe they might gain powers beyond those of ordinary people, like the characters in their novels, a trial makes them realize that the world of cultivation is nothing like they imagined. They want to escape, but they can’t break free of this cage…