The story takes place in the Xuanhuang world where consciousness and destiny are intertwined. The protagonist Shi Canghai, a 43-year-old middle-aged alchemist who appears to be ordinary, but in fact has his memory and power sealed by himself, is forced to embark on the path of spiritual practice again during the crisis when abnormal fluctuations occur in the "Xuanhuang Town Boundary Tower", leading to the depletion of the "Wan Nian Pond" where he is located in Danxia Mountain. In the process of rebuilding the "Return of Everything" and starting over as a drug boy, the sleeping Taichu Hongmeng body and the ferocious beast's bloodline gradually awakened in his body, and the scattered memories of skills collected as a time traveler in his previous life also began to emerge. He got acquainted with Su Jianwei, a talented girl who fell into an existential crisis due to his advice, and Xuanshu, the ancient consciousness tower spirit that guards the Zhenjie Tower. Together, they face the "turbulent flow of consciousness" and "paradox of fate" caused by the instability of the boundary tower, which also attracts the causal liquidator who exists specifically to erase time and space anomalies. Shi Canghai gained enlightenment in alchemy, used elixir fire to temper his consciousness, and used elixirs to harmonize the ecology, and gradually became involved in the grand conflict between restoring the ecological balance of the ocean of consciousness and resisting the absolute inevitability of fate. In the end, he did not prove the Tao and rule the heavens with his power, but returned to his origin in the realm of "Alchemy Ancestor" and transformed himself into the most original "Tao seed", integrated into the Xuanhuang Zhenjie Tower, and became the new cornerstone of stabilizing the consciousness ecology of all realms. In the sea of free will, he opened up a subtle possibility for all living beings not to be bound by absolute destiny.
