When Xie Lingya was ten years old, his family was ruined and he only received a talking, cracked iron sword from his father. He wandered through seventeen towns, slept in pigsties, stole steamed buns, and almost froze to death in a ditch in winter. He picked up Zhou Qufei, a young man abandoned by his tribe on the Wei River with half a piece of moldy cake in his arms. In a village ravaged by the plague, he met Shen Qingci, who was guarding three corpses alone and using herbs to try to preserve the last body temperature of his relatives.
The three of them formed a stumbling team. No one could talk nicely, but no one thought about breaking up.
In this world, there is a sect of cultivating immortals called Kunlunxu. Everyone wants to climb up there, just because it is said that if you ascend to become an immortal, you can gain eternal life. No one knows what is waiting at the end of the golden light at the top of the ascension platform. Only the leader Lu Chenyuan, who was lucky enough to climb up three hundred years ago, knows - those self-proclaimed "immortals" have sticky tentacles, and everyone who steps on the ascension platform will eventually become their food.
And the broken sword on Xie Lingya's back led him into a chess game that was destined to shatter everything from the beginning.
This is a story about walking - some people were eaten while walking, some people learned to give half a piece of cake to strangers while walking, and some people discovered as they walked that the sword path is long and you don't have to walk alone. There were laughter and tears, blood and mud, a warm fire and a night where six people huddled together and snored.
And above the clouds, those things that can never have enough to eat.
Concept: In the mud of troubled times, three picked-up brothers keep each other warm, walking and staying alive. There are no immortals at the end of the ascension, only monsters who can't get enough to eat. But on the road to the world, there are fires, corn, dry biscuits to share, and a night when six people huddle together and snore.