Young Zhongli Ren was the son of a frontier general, but an ancient internal martial arts manual left his parents dead and him adrift in the martial world.
His sincerity and kindness had already moved Han Guangyang, the famed assassin of the Shanyin Cult. Han searched north and south before finally finding him on Mount Shaoshi, in the Buddhist sanctuary. But by then, Zhongli Ren had been gravely wounded by the Shaolin monks' intensely yang, supremely rigid Yijinjing internal energy.
Han Guangyang rescued him, but failed to notice the intense yang energy lurking in Zhongli Ren's Baihui acupoint.
It was this hidden energy that made Zhongli Ren's path of cultivation so harrowing, fraught with setbacks and near-death experiences.
As he investigates the people who murdered his parents, he discovers that Uncle Han, who had been like a father and a teacher to him, is deeply connected to the attack that killed them.
A conspiracy targeting him closes around Zhongli Ren like a giant web. Shaolin, Wudang, the Mount Tai Eastern Peak Sect, the Mount Hua Western Peak Sect, the Shanyin Cult, the Wangliang Sect, righteous and demonic factions: conflict erupts on all sides, and the martial world is thrown into turmoil once more...
See how this inexperienced young man will hold fast to his original convictions and dispel the confusion amid the vast web of the martial world...
