Zhao Ming is a single father who lives quietly in the city with his three-year-old daughter. His greatest wish is for her to grow up safe and happy. No one knows that he was the greatest strategist in the cultivation world, the last master of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets, forced to retire three hundred years ago.
But try as he might to keep the peace, trouble keeps finding him. Zhou Yi, the close friend who betrayed him all those years ago, is now a leading figure of the new generation in the cultivation world and is searching everywhere for him. Worse still, Elder Cao, a senior member of the sect who once regarded him as the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets’ “last surviving heir,” has come calling with a sharp tongue and ulterior motives. He immediately demands that Zhao Ming hand over the “secret techniques never passed down outside the Pavilion,” meaning the so-called “treasure that guards the Pavilion,” which even Zhao Ming himself has no idea how to find.
As the cultivation world collides with the mortal world, Zhao Ming’s identity is on the verge of being exposed. Faced with the jealousy and schemes of his former friend, as well as the pressure and machinations of the sect elders, he must navigate both the everyday concerns of food and bills and the deadly world of blades and blood. He will use a mortal’s wisdom to break the cultivation world’s deadlocks, and a father’s tenderness to protect his daughter’s future.
When his daughter is drawn into the storm, Zhao Ming finally understands: some identities can be hidden for a while, but not forever. If he cannot escape, then the whole cultivation world can perish with him!
