In the vast world of Cangluan, one's path to immortality is determined by their spiritual root. Without one, no matter how astonishing your talents, your lifespan is limited and the immortal path is closed to you.
Yet generation after generation, those unwilling to settle for mediocrity explored and passed down their knowledge, eventually forging a martial path that required no spiritual root. Through single-minded cultivation, tempering and refining the body, and attuning oneself to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, one could gradually master extraordinary powers.
But the martial path had fallen into decline. Even a grandmaster at its pinnacle was barely equal in ability to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, making martial arts little more than a servant of the immortal path.
Jiang Chen, whose soul had crossed over, became a humble constable in the Li Kingdom, one of the hundred nations of the Great Wilderness in the vast world of Cangluan.
Born without a spiritual root, he relied on his golden finger, the Heart-Fate Seal, to gradually restore Cangluan's broken martial path.
The immortal path relies on spiritual roots. I will cultivate the martial path.
I ask neither immortals nor gods, neither heaven nor fate. With my fists alone, I will forge an age that lasts forever.
I will prove eternal life through martial arts, sweep across the Nine Heavens, and endure forever!
