Sixteen-year-old Lin Xuan is the last keeper of a shrine in the vast Cangmang Mountains. He lives alongside an old blue ox, scraping by on herbs and woven bamboo crafts. One day, a torrential rain uncovers a dried-up well in the back courtyard. At the bottom, he finds a stone tablet covered in runes and a yellowed copy of the Treatise on the Great Mystery’s Response.
No one knows that the shabby book is the core cultivation manual of the ancient Xuanyuan Dao Sect, and that the stone tablet is the transformed form of the sect’s founding patriarch’s bonded spirit pet.
He recites the scriptures, senses the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and opens his qi sea for the first time;
He fights bandits, reveals his talent for cultivation, and draws the attention of a sect;
He ventures into a secret realm, obtains spirit-gathering pearls, and breaks through the bottleneck in his cultivation technique;
He faces a tribulation lightning strike, and a golden seal protects his soul, allowing him to establish a perfect foundation…
From coarse tea in a chipped bowl at the Qingniu Shrine to a gathering of ten thousand immortals at the Xuanyuan Dao Sect; from a boy bullied by the sect’s menial servants to a Nascent Soul Divine Lord pointing his sword at the heavens.
Lin Xuan treads over the bones of the Tianyan Sect, takes up Elder Qingxu’s charge, and carries the old blue ox’s unfulfilled wish with him. As orthodox and demonic forces close in, he carves out a bloody path:
“If the cultivation world has no place for the Xuanyuan Dao Sect, then I’ll remake heaven and earth and make my Xuanyuan the supreme sect!”
A rise from humble beginnings, one extraordinary encounter after another. See how an ordinary boy uses a fragmentary scroll and an old ox to defy fate and command the destiny of the cultivation world!
