After spending a decade in exile, Lu Chen had long been a forgotten name—a former shadow undercover of the Fuyun Division, once feared, now nothing more than a man trying to survive. The black fire curse that had destroyed his cultivation was a cruel reminder of the price he had paid for thwarting the magic cult’s spell of descending gods.
Just when he thought he had escaped that world, his old master, Tianlan, found him once more. This time, the mission was different: infiltrate the Kunlun Sect and uncover the magic cult’s hidden agent. With no cultivation left, Lu Chen had no choice but to start at the bottom, taking the guise of a mere handyman in Baicaotang.
What began as just another mission slowly turned into something more. He met friends who treated him as one of their own, experienced warmth he had never known, and found himself drawn to Yi Xin, a woman who saw past his scars and secrets. But as he followed the breadcrumbs of the past, he stumbled upon a truth that shattered his world—the legendary black dragon sealed in Kunlun’s forbidden land was not the great evil people claimed it to be. And Master Tianlan, the man he had once revered, had his own hidden motives.
For the first time, Lu Chen questioned everything. What was justice? What was evil? Could he truly break free from the path that had been carved for him? With Yi Xin’s unwavering support, he chose to stop running—from the past, from himself. He would no longer be bound by rigid notions of right and wrong. Instead, he would follow his heart and fight for what he believed was truly just.
