On the day of the twelfth-month mountain sacrifice, heavy snow sealed off the mountains. Yue Qingxiao, a hunter from Qingshi Village, carried a gigantic, 300-jin wild boar back all by himself. He had hoped to sell it for silver to buy medicine for his gravely ill father.
But at the village entrance, the village tyrant Shi Biao threw his weight around. Coveting the boar, he tried to seize it by force and use it to curry favor with the high-ranking Commissioner Gao, who was visiting for a banquet. He refused to pay a single coin, wanting to fob Yue Qingxiao off with nothing but empty pleasantries.
Yue Qingxiao was an upright man, born with immense strength, and refused to swallow his anger or give way. During the argument, he merely gave Shi Biao a casual shove, but Shi Biao fell and struck the back of his head on a stone mill, causing a fatal accident on the spot.
In an instant, fear swept through Qingshi Village. The village head was furious, the clansmen grew suspicious, and the authorities could arrive at any moment to arrest him. On one side was his bedridden father, who could not be left alone; on the other was the desperate situation of having caused a death and being unable to escape the law.
In a barren, unforgiving land and a cruel world, a powerless hunter from the lowest rung of society had only wanted to keep his family safe and live an honest, quiet life. But driven by the times, he was forced to leave his village, step by step.
To protect his father and clear his name of this unjust calamity, Yue Qingxiao could only leave his home and set out on an unknown road toward the martial world beyond the borders.
The deep mountains forged his brute strength, and the wind and snow tempered his unyielding spirit. He came from the wilderness, strong enough to carry a wild boar on his shoulders and the burdens of the world in his heart. From then on, he ventured into towns, entered the martial path, and crossed the star domains, rising step by step amid the upheavals of a chaotic age.
The village hunter who was once bullied by everyone would ultimately break free of fate's shackles, overturn the world with his brute strength, and command all beneath heaven with his pride. From a fugitive of Qingshi Village, he would rise step by step to the pinnacle of the world and look down upon thousands of miles of mountains
