After the Guardian Patriarch revealed his true nature, for Men Hao—miraculously saved from death—there was no choice left but to set off on a journey through the Southern Limit, an immense territory where his native State of Zhao once stood. In total, the Southern Limit includes nine flourishing mortal states. And on such fertile ground, over thousands of years, five great Sects of Practitioners and three great Clans of Practitioners have grown. Each of these formations of Practitioners has its own features: its own ideologies, its own special magical techniques, its own hidden secrets. All of them maintain a fragile balance of power, preserving at least the appearance of peace. And perhaps it will be precisely Men Hao—walking against everything and about to break through to a new stage of his Cultivation, Foundation Establishment—who will have to disrupt this balance…