In a year of severe drought, the village's old elm tree is mistaken for a demon tree and chopped down. The young Yu Xian loses his mother, a tree spirit who had yet to complete her transformation, leaving him only a jade pendant and a scroll of cultivation techniques. Clinging to his determination, he enters the Baiyun Sect, beginning as a low-ranking mining disciple in an abandoned mine. With the pendant's ability to detect ore and his astonishing talent for alchemy, he steadily rises. He also gains extraordinary opportunities in the Ascension Secret Realm and the Demon-Heaven Forbidden Land, transforming his spiritual roots and rapidly advancing his cultivation. The road to immortality is long, and human hearts are treacherous. Through perseverance and ingenuity, the young man carves out a path to the summit in a cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak.