At forty-three, Tie Ge, a building-materials businessman, was crushed by debt after his business failed. After falling off a cliff, he accidentally entered the Xuanling Realm.
Gifted with one of the rarest Void Spirit Roots, he started too late and endured ridicule and torment in the outer sect.
With a mortal's body, he set foot on the path of cultivation. Wielding the Taixu Sword and Purple Sky Thunder, he swept aside powerful foes, fighting his way from menial laborer to Nascent Soul powerhouse.
He had but one goal: to attain the Great Dao, tear open the barrier between the two worlds, and return to Earth to protect his wife and children.
But he had no idea that pursuers from the Demon Shadow Sect had followed the traces left by spatial travel and embarked on a years-long chase across the stars.
By the time he finally returned to the modern world, the calamity facing the sects of the Xuanling Realm and the rise of cultivation on Earth were only just beginning...
