Outer sect handyman Ye Zhao is judged to have demonic roots on the spirit-testing platform, and senior brother Liu Guanlan transplants his spiritual roots under the pretext of saving the saintess. Everyone up and down the mountain gate thinks the matter is settled, but on the day of the root transplantation, the patriarch's memorial tablet rings by itself, and the heavenly ladder opens for this handyman. Three days later, he stands up from beneath the broken cliff, a patriarch's seal floating upon his bones. He wants to figure out two things: who wrote the verdict of the demonic roots, and whose hand withered the saintess's pulses. The answer is hidden inside the scripture pavilion, and the name on the back of the portrait is Lu Chen.