The Immortal Way of the Mortal World

The world revives. Humans cultivate the Dao, beasts become demons, and souls turn into ghosts. Only the fittest survive.

The immortal sects say this is the natural way of the Great Dao, and that the devastation wrought by the demon tide is natural too. Their disciples must not interfere.

The Imperial Preceptor thinks otherwise. He insists that everyone in this mortal realm should have the chance to forge their own path to immortality. But now, the Imperial Preceptor is dying.

So, in the late autumn of that year, a young man in a wheelchair arrived in the capital.