Mortal cultivation, family saga, farming, and conquest.
Immortals absorb spiritual energy and ascend, gods gain longevity from incense offerings, and ghosts grow stronger by stealing souls. These three paths divide the mortal world, leaving all living beings oppressed forever.
An abandoned son of the immortal path with no spiritual roots, Xie Lin forges a new way forward, cultivating by refining the people's trust, joys, and sorrows with the Heavenly Evolution Seal.
The schools of Confucianism and law each have their shortcomings: pure benevolence indulges the wicked, harsh punishments breed public resentment, and empty talk of moral instruction cannot quell the chaos of a troubled age.
He takes in hundreds of thousands of displaced people and brings Confucian scholars of the Meng school, the Xun school, and the Legalist school into the court to debate the Way, drawing on each school's strengths to make up for the others' weaknesses.
Beyond the paths of immortals, gods, and ghosts, he establishes a Human Immortal Court for the human race alone.
If immortals oppress the people, I will strike them down. If gods abandon the world, I will abolish their worship. If ghosts harm the people, I will subdue them.
With the hearts of all the people, I will establish the eternal way of the Human Emperor.
