That night, strange phenomena appeared across the globe.
A Primordial System awakened in Lu Yuan's sea of consciousness, granting him a Primordial Dao Body and the Supreme Heart Sutra. His cultivation became linked to the entire world: for every bit stronger he grew, Earth's spiritual energy would revive a little more.
The System sent him to the primordial world, but he arrived at the worst possible time: the treasures on Treasure-Splitting Cliff had already found their owners, and the Three Pure Ones had long since returned to their respective sanctuaries.
At the foot of Mount Kunlun, the Lord of Heaven-Shaking unexpectedly stopped and discovered this mortal, whose origins lay beyond the Three Realms and whose body bore the aura of chaos.
“Disciple Lu Yuan begs the immortal to take me as his apprentice.”
From that day on, the Jie School had a taciturn senior apprentice brother.
He devoted himself to cultivation for hundreds of years. No one knew his name before he survived tribulation and became an immortal. In secret, he found the Primordial Measuring Ruler and the Twelfth-Grade Pure-World White Lotus, treasures that had never before appeared in the primordial world. With both in hand, no one could divine his origins.
In another corner of the primordial world, every time he broke through to a higher realm, the concentration of spiritual energy in the real world surged. The age of spiritual qi revival began, and he was its source. He secretly returned to Earth, awakened an innate Dao Body in his only sister, taught her the Shangqing Immortal Arts, and arranged one opportunity after another, waiting for humanity to enter the path of cultivation in an orderly fashion: a path secretly controlled by him.
The great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods descended. The grand design could not be changed, but he could choose whom to save and what roots to protect.
When the calamity ended, the sages had fallen and the Jie School had survived. Hongjun pointed beneath the clouds and asked, “Where did this boy come from?”
No one could answer.
Lu Yuan gazed into the chaos beyond the heavens and took his sister's hand. “Come on. Let's see what lies beyond the sages.”
A tale of a man who quietly becomes invincible in the primordial world, while laying plans in the real world to become the power behind the Heavenly Dao.
The two worlds are a game of chess.
