With the spiritual qi revival, everyone can cultivate, but each time they advance a level, another strand of deadly turbid qi forms inside them.
The stronger you get, the closer you come to death.
Lu Chen awakens a purification ability that can dispel turbid qi. But every person he purifies leaves another deadly mark on his body.
He can only keep it hidden.
Caught between the authorities and rogue cultivators, he struggles to survive, turning the tide with purification and making evildoers suffer the backlash of their own turbid qi.
Until Gu Xiaoman is infected by turbid qi and left on the brink of death.
Save her, reveal himself, and die.
Don't save her, and watch her die.
Lu Chen fights his way to the top, eventually becoming the strongest forbidden cultivator. At last, he uncovers the truth behind the turbid qi and the spiritual qi revival, a truth that should never have been known.
