Lu Ming, a poor rogue cultivator from Cangyun Mountain, has relied on his younger sister, Lu Yu, since childhood. He once hoped to live a quiet life in the mountains, but disaster struck when his sister contracted the ancient and incurable affliction known as Dreamwraith. She draws eerie patterns in the dead of night as her soul is slowly devoured by the Other Path. Desperate to save her, Lu Ming takes a dangerous gamble, venturing into perilous mountains and the forbidden Evernight Ruins. He barely survives beneath a faceless, uncanny immortal, and unexpectedly awakens a strange eye that can see through the laws of heaven and earth. He also obtains the ancient forbidden legacy, The Fragmentary Scroll of the Other Path.
With his eyes opened, he can see the patterns of Dao corruption, the cracks in the laws of nature, and the weaknesses in magical seals. But he is also branded by an uncanny immortal and becomes a public enemy of the orthodox sects. Hunted by the Anomaly Suppression Bureau, threatened by the Returning Truth Sect, and pursued by the Xuanmen sects, he fights alone to protect his sister. Driven to the brink, he breaks through to a new realm and defies the heavens with the power of the Other Path.
As the truth about his origins comes to light, Lu Ming uncovers a world-shattering secret: the Immortal Realm collapsed three thousand years ago, becoming a sea of uncanny immortals. The so-called ascension is nothing but a road to death. The various sects conceal the truth, while the Anomaly Suppression Bureau slaughters those who learn it, all merely to cling to a wretched existence. He and his sister are descendants of the Seven Cultivators who sealed the Gate of Heaven, and the last sparks keeping the Three Realms alive.
Caught in the Xuanmen’s uncanny schemes, facing a world where good and evil are hard to distinguish, powerful foes with clashing ideals, and companions who share life and death with him, Lu Ming has no choice. He bears the Other Path in a mortal body and sees the cosmos through uncanny eyes. He will be neither a hypocrite of the orthodox path nor a bloodthirsty fiend of the uncanny path. Between the orthodox and the Other Path, he forges a solitary road against heaven to change his fate.
Save his sister, repay his master’s kindness, uncover the truth, and mend the Heavenly Dao: from a lowly rogue cultivator, he rises step by step to the pinnacle, shaking the Three Realms.
