After the Prince of Zhennan's estate is ruined and his family destroyed, Lin Fan lives in seclusion at the West Mountain's Scripture Pavilion, relying on a reading system to quietly cultivate for seven years, while everyone thinks he is a good-for-nothing who only knows how to read. On a snowy night, he chances upon the book-stealing youth Qin Ming and his younger sister Qin Ge, taking them as disciples, and also accepts the Tang Emperor's dying trust to take the imperial prince Li Yu as a disciple. He achieves enlightenment through reading, a withered branch and a single sword startles the imperial capital, five fingers form a realm to destroy the seven sages, a single palm suppresses and slaughters the Dao, a single sword forces back saints, he subdues the Spirit clan, repels the Demon clan, suppresses the Celestial clan, and finally steps onto the starry sky to kill the Heavenly Dao, ending the human race's one-hundred-thousand-year suppression, establishing the Human Emperor Court, transforming into the Emperor Tree to shelter Xuanhuang, while his zither-dao disciple Qin Ge waits for ten thousand years, awaiting the next youth who pushes open the doors of the Scripture Pavilion.