Li Chuyi, an orphan who takes the Heavenly Dao as his adoptive father and possesses peerless fortune, bids farewell to his fellow villagers and embarks on a journey to seek immortality. Along the way, he meets Fang Yuan and crosses the Tongtian River to reach the Eastern Continent, where he gathers the Five Elements cultivation techniques to establish his foundation. During his trials, he is surrounded by powerful enemies and awakens the Dao Fruit of the Mortal Heart. The mighty cultivator Zhen Xuan reveals that heaven and earth are a prison created by the Word Immortals, and Li Chuyi obtains clues to a divine weapon capable of slaying gods. After returning home to settle the villagers, he wins the sect competition and escapes the illusion of the Fate Manipulators. After ten years of secluded cultivation, he forms his Golden Core. When black energy wreaks havoc across the world, he sees through the conspiracy of the false immortals, takes the calamity of heaven and earth upon himself, and leads the Shadow Insects into the Land of the End of the Dharma. As the embryonic form of a Nascent Soul begins to emerge within his Golden Core, he resolves to gather all the original Immortal Fates, overthrow the lofty Word Immortals, and break the shackles imprisoning this world.