An extraordinary turn of fate for Lin Chen, an ordinary college student in Yuncheng. Orphaned at a young age, he scrapes by with part-time jobs. Then, in a sudden accident, he witnesses a humanoid monster committing murder. The ancestral jade pendant on his chest abruptly begins to glow, awakening the “Truth-Seeking Eye” in his bloodline and allowing him to glimpse the “Mystic Realm” hidden beneath the bustling city: a secret world of cultivators, demon spirits, and people with supernatural abilities.
Mo Lao, an old servant of the Lin family who had been sleeping within the jade pendant, appears and reveals that Lin Chen is a descendant of the Lin family, an ancient and powerful clan wiped out for protecting fragments of the “World’s Heart.” As the Truth-Seeking Eye awakens, Lin Chen is forced into the conflicts of the Mystic Realm. He goes from misunderstanding to fighting side by side with Su Muxue, an heir to an ancient martial family, struggles to grow amid the demon hunters’ pursuit and the Mystic Realm Alliance’s power plays, and must also confront the shocking secrets his family left behind.
He cultivates the Lin family’s long-lost Myriad Forms Art, which lets him absorb spiritual energy, demonic power, and supernatural abilities and turn them to his own use. From a naive boy, he becomes a formidable force commanding attention in both worlds. As a crisis sparked by the fragments of the “World’s Heart” sweeps over the land and the shadow of the Demon God draws near, Lin Chen and his companions travel between the mortal world and the Mystic Realm. Balancing on the line between protection and upheaval, they write an urban fantasy epic about growth, responsibility, and safeguarding what matters. Yet at the boundary between the bustling city and the mist-shrouded mountains, still more truths await his discovery.
