A Lantern Guides the Way, the Sword Path Questions the Heart

The Jiang Clan of Jiangnan has cultivated immortality for generations, yet no one in the past three generations has formed a core. It has long since fallen to the bottom ranks.

Jiang Linyuan, the eldest legitimate son, is eighteen and at the seventh level of Qi Condensation. His greatest wish isn't to ascend and become an immortal, but to preserve the family estate, protect his mother and younger sister, and live out his life in peace.

Then his father mysteriously disappears in a secret realm on Mount Xuanyin, rival clans close in step by step, and his mother falls gravely ill, near death.

Overnight, he becomes the Jiang Clan's sole pillar of support.

With nowhere else to turn, he finds a bronze antique lamp covered in verdigris among his father's belongings.

A line of tiny characters is engraved on its body: “Reveal cause and effect. Ask not about fortune or misfortune.”

The first time he takes hold of the lamp, he sees a memory that isn't his own: his father's cry for help, an unfathomably deep abyss, and a shocking secret about the “flaws in the Heavenly Way.”

The lamp can't help him fight or aid his cultivation. Its sole power is to reveal cause and effect.

It can see through a person's past, trace an event to its source, and uncover every hidden truth in the world.

From then on, Jiang Linyuan sets out on a path he never expected.

He joins the Qingyun Sect and starts at the very bottom as an outer disciple in Class C. He must survive between the warring orthodox and demonic factions, struggle through the quagmire of feuds between great clans, and search for the truth behind his father's disappearance amid the mists surrounding the demon race, the devil race, and ancient ruins.

As the ancient lamp shines ever brighter, he gradually discovers that his father's disappearance is only the tip of the iceberg. The Heavenly Way of this world has long been riddled with flaws. Behind the severed path to ascension lies a conspiracy that has endured for a hundred thousand years.

Everyone tells him