The Cycle of Selfhood

Chu Zidao, the master of the Reincarnation Path on Yunmeng Continent, is betrayed by his junior brother Jin Wei and his former Daoist companion Jin Hua just as he is about to undergo the tribulation of a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation. His soul, carrying the supreme treasure Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation Tower, falls into a temporal rift and drifts to the lower plane of Qingwu Realm, where he possesses Shen Yan, the sole survivor of the massacred Shen family.

Here, martial arts rule and noble clans monopolize power, while poisonous seeds from beyond the realm secretly ravage the people. Reborn, he possesses the inheritance and boundless resources of the upper realm, yet refuses to rely on strength alone to dominate the world. He embarks on a path of seeking the Dao through the trials of mortal life: rebuilding his cultivation in the Reincarnation Path, investigating the Shen family massacre, and resisting the distant gaze of enemies from his past life, while gathering allies among the suffering masses, spreading farming and medical knowledge, and educating the people in an effort to break the deadlock of a chaotic age caused by decayed noble clans.

Personal vengeance and the greater good clash at every turn, while love, hatred, and political intrigue intertwine. What is reincarnation? Is it the heavenly cycle of submitting to fate, or a cycle forged by one's own path, breaking through the deadlock? Amid the bustling, tear-streaked mortal world, a mighty cultivator once again questions the true meaning of the Great Dao.