Twenty years ago, the young son of a powerful clan went missing by accident and was taken in and raised at a Taoist temple by an old Daoist who lived deep in the mountains. Twenty years later, after the old Daoist passed away, his birth parents found him. He thought he was returning to a loving family, but instead he had stepped into a different kind of hell.
Life in a powerful family is a deep and dangerous sea. Their adopted son is jealous, his parents favor him, and his five older sisters treat him with cold indifference. After spending six months as their “servant,” he resolutely signs a letter severing all ties and returns to the Taoist temple.
A year later, supernatural horrors return across the globe, and humanity falls into chaos. The young Taoist Lin Fan descends the mountain, using his inherited Taoist arts to slay demons and banish evil, growing rapidly through his battles against the uncanny. When he encounters his family from the past, he treats them as strangers. Their adopted son repeatedly sets deadly traps for him, only to become a whetstone that sharpens Lin Fan’s skills.
Months later, Lin Fan realizes that even one person’s strength has its limits. He takes disciples and passes on his teachings, joins forces with the authorities, and establishes China’s first “Cultivation University.” As its president, he trains countless cultivators and forms an army to purge demons.
As the source of the supernatural horrors gradually comes to light, it turns out that the underworld’s cycle of reincarnation has gone out of control, while the gods and Buddhas of the heavens have long since vanished. Lin Fan must suppress the ghosts plaguing the human world while restoring order to the underworld, using virtuous heroes’ spirits to serve in place of the underworld deities.
Just as peace begins to return to the human world, an even greater truth is revealed: the immortals and gods have not disappeared. They have been fighting a bloody war against the heavenly demons beyond the mortal realms for thousands of years. Faced with a far broader battlefield and even more merciless foes, Lin Fan leads the students of Cultivation University into the fray.
From the human world to the underworld, from Earth to the battlefield between immortals and demons, this heir to the Taoist tradition will eventually destroy every evil demon, find the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, uncover mysteries hidden for countless ages, and ascend to the pinnacle of the Great Dao.
