After dizzying adventures in the mystical world of the four Dao academies and acquiring a spiritual root, Van Baole says goodbye to the lower academy and enrolls in the upper Dao academy of Ether. Now, having obtained spiritual meridians together with the spiritual root and the ability to use magical techniques, he finally has the right to call himself a true practitioner. But his new status, along with pleasant privileges, has also brought new obligations. In addition to new, far more complex lessons on creating and improving dharmic artifacts, he will more than once have to leave the Dao academy—not only learning a great deal about the current cruel world of the Era of the Spiritual Origin, but also risking his life in deadly clashes both on Earth and beyond it…