When in doubt, ask the spring breeze. If the spring breeze does not answer, follow your heart. The Lijing Pearl Grotto crumbled, and everyone believed that Qi Jingchun, a disciple of the Sage of Letters, had sacrificed himself for the Dao, his soul utterly destroyed.
No one knew that he had faked his death through a trick that had deceived Heaven, escaping into the remnants of the grotto. As the spiritual powers of the Three Teachings devoured one another, he struggled to survive through unbearable pain. He had cultivated the Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ways, and had once been a Second Sage of Confucianism, a Daoist True Person, and a Buddhist Venerable. Yet he had been trapped in a thousand-year struggle over their respective traditions, watching the human world descend into chaos and its people suffer.
To break down the barriers between the schools, and protect those he held dear, he vowed to forge a path no one before him had taken: uniting the Three Teachings.
Traveling through the mortal world under the assumed name of Master Chun, he observed the warmth and coldness of human nature and made allies across the land;
He secretly protected Chen Ping'an, made amends for regrets from his past, and maneuvered among masters of the Three Teachings;
He stood against the conservative, obstinate leaders of the Three Teachings, while suppressing the evil cult of Gui Xu, which plotted to plunge the world into chaos.
