Li Yunfeng, a 23-year-old lay disciple of the Celestial Masters of Longhu Mountain, bears the Five Thunder Righteous Technique. He seems carefree and irreverent, but is actually meticulous, and his origins conceal a shocking secret. Before ascending, his master left him an obscure prophecy: "Two and four are the shoulders, six and eight are the feet; the shadowed slopes of Zhongnan, the Qilin returns to the void." To unravel the mystery of his fate, Li travels across China, embarking on a thrilling adventure through folk customs and the supernatural.
From a sinister ghost coffin pulled from the Yellow River, engraved with his birth date, to the mysterious disappearance of a flower-cave maiden in western Hunan; from the thousand-year-old entanglement of a Fox Immortal temple in the northeast to the sinister mischief of a miasma spirit in Lingnan, he survives one deadly ordeal after another. Along the way, he befriends Su Wanqing, heir to a corpse-driving family in western Hunan; Zhong Shaoyuan, the young lord of the Mohists; Hu Santaiguan, a thousand-year-old fox immortal; and Lu Chen, a Buddhist Vajra, among other companions who share life and death with him. He also encounters eccentric figures from the martial world whose loyalties are hard to discern.
As the mysteries are unraveled, every supernatural incident points to the First Emperor's Mausoleum on Mount Li. This ancient imperial tomb is actually a colossal seal, using the mountains and rivers of the Nine Provinces as a talisman array to suppress an ancient fiend. Li Yunfeng is the living eye of the sealing array, and also the reincarnation of a Kunlun deity.
With all ten array eyes gathered, the final battle begins. Faced with the choice of merging with the array to protect all living beings forever, or reshaping the Heavenly Dao and bringing everything down together, he must ultimately write his own ending between fate and duty.
