In a world tainted by turbid spirits, spiritual energy lies shrouded in dust. Cultivators everywhere fight over the nine pure meridians, yet no one remembers the great clan that kept the world’s lamp burning a thousand years ago. In Luoxia Village at the foot of Mount Cangwu, the orphan Shen Zhao knows nothing of the fate hidden in the black jade tucked into his swaddling clothes, nor that his blood can cleanse the turbid and restore purity. All he remembers is his foster father’s words: “When immortals fight, mortals suffer.” But as the bells ring out again and again from beyond the mountains, he must finally descend to search for medicine, to find someone, and to seek out the character “Shen” that makes his chest burn.
