For ten thousand years, the heavens have been sealed, and the Great Dao lies beneath a veil of dust.
Everyone firmly believes that cultivation means tempering the flesh and guarding the primordial spirit in pursuit of immortality.
Lu Xin, the Lu family's prodigy, saw his false realm crumble after surviving the tribulation, leaving his foundation damaged. His entire clan regards him as a cripple, and he awaits the family tournament six months from now, where his inevitable end will arrive.
A jade pendant of a thousand mechanisms, dormant since antiquity, suddenly awakens and reveals to him a forgotten path to divine existence.
The flesh may decay, and the primordial spirit may perish, but only the thought of the Dao can endure through the ages and last forever.
His childhood companion, Mu Ling, has a damaged soul. For his sake, she defies the thousand-year ancestral pact between their clans, pledging to share life and death with him.
The secret history of the ancient Murong clan's split slowly comes to light. A lurking source of destruction watches and waits, while traces of the Wu clan and vanished immortals emerge one after another.
While the whole world pursues an immortal body, Lu Xin embarks on a path against fate, bearing the thoughts of the Dao through the ages in his own mortal frame.
