The nine realms of cultivation are Foundation Building, Body Tempering, Knowledge, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification, Dao Accumulation, Tribulation Transcendence, and Great Ascension. How does one attain immortality, step by step, over mountains of corpses? Or does it take an against-the-heavens stroke of luck? Bearing his grandfather's dream, an ordinary young man presses forward along the path of cultivation, his resolve as precarious as walking on thin ice. With three thousand Dao arts and ten thousand spirit beasts, can he build up his strength and finally unleash it?