In the Age of Declining Dharma, the world's spiritual energy has run dry, and nine out of ten talismans have lost their power. The young Taoist Chen Jius, from Mount Qingming, enters the mortal world. Along the way, he slashes paper effigies, defeats water ghosts, and suppresses demons and evil spirits, gradually uncovering the truth: he is a "Dao Seed" refined three hundred years ago by the True Man Zhenling using the fruits of his lifelong cultivation. He proves his Dao through heart-thunder and forms a golden core, then uses his Dao fruit as kindling to rekindle the spiritual ley lines. He drives the world-devouring "Heaven's Collapse" back beneath the earth, preserving the last spark of the Dao in the mortal world at the end of the Dharma age.
