The events of the story take place in a world of tales and legends from ancient China. A young scholar named Meng Hao, who has already failed the exam for a government post several times, together with a few companions is kidnapped by a girl with incredible superhuman strength and brought to a sect of mystical practitioners lost in the mountains. He faces a choice: either spend 30 years working his back off in slavery chopping wood—losing his best years—or take the path of spiritual cultivation of inner energy and gain the chance to join the privileged part of the sect. But this path is deadly dangerous, because in the world of practitioners the law of the jungle rules, and only personal strength and cunning can guarantee your safety to some extent. For every practitioner, there is exactly one goal—true immortality through enlightenment—but the road to it is long and difficult, passing through overcoming many stages of spiritual development, and it is practically unattainable within a mortal human lifetime.
And so there are countless ways to reach this goal, because what lengths practitioners won’t go to to spur their cultivation—whether it’s battles for influence over places rich in spiritual energy or magical items with the most incredible properties. Meng Hao must harden his spirit—not only to survive, but to know the immense boundless world full of ancient secrets, powerful practically godlike Daos, and demonic creatures capable of shaking the heavens and the earth—and in the end, challenge even the Heavens themselves and finish the path of the Immortal Hero.