“I entered the mountains for a full meal. Who knew that from then on, I’d rule supreme, above heaven and earth?”
On the eastern frontier, beneath Mount Cangwu, lies a run-down village.
Jiang Xun is an orphan raised on the kindness of others. His most valuable assets are his seemingly endless strength and a silver tongue. One day, the Tai Xuan Sect holds its once-every-five-years recruitment ceremony on Mount Cangwu. Jiang Xun plans to head up the mountain and scrounge a vegetarian meal to satisfy his hunger. But by a twist of fate, he catches the eye of Jiang Zhiyou, the “Iceheart Daoist Venerable,” the Tai Xuan Sect’s First Elder who is on the verge of transcending her tribulation and ascending. She makes an exception and takes him as her personal disciple.
Jiang Xun soon discovers that this beautiful, icy Daoist Venerable is the most senior figure in the sect by generation. The moment he joins, he becomes the grand-uncle-master of the Tai Xuan Sect’s fifth-generation disciples!
His childhood companions from the village, the sect prodigies who always looked down on him, and even the sect elders all have to address him respectfully as “Martial Uncle” or even “Grandmaster.” With the lowest cultivation but the highest seniority, Jiang Xun embarks on a farcical cultivation journey amid the undercurrents swirling through the seven great immortal sects.
Yet the wheels of fate have already begun to turn. The Tai Xuan Sect’s supreme treasure, the Primordial Iron Staff, awakens in his hands. A golden-eyed black monkey of unknown origin, seemingly hiding secrets of heaven and earth, recognizes him as its master. And the remnant soul of the Great Demon Venerable Ye Yuan, whose name once struck terror throughout the cultivation world and who nearly destroyed the immortal path ten thousand years ago, is lurking in Jiang Xun’s sea of consciousness, sharing his body and life…
What was the truth behind the war between the righteous and demonic factions ten thousand years ago? What shocking secrets lie beneath the scheming among the seven great immortal sects? And what is the wisp within Jiang Xun, connected to the origin of heaven and earth…
