Dragon Claw World.
A raggedly dressed youth struggled through the deep, ancient mountains thick with poisonous creatures and miasma. When hungry, he caught snakes and insects or gathered wild fruit to fill his stomach; when thirsty, he drank filthy water from mud pits.
Fortunately, he had cultivation, or he would never have survived such a brutal environment. What made his heart pound even more was the pursuers who had been chasing him for over half a year!
The youth was named Tu Lin. Since childhood, he had entered Qingfeng Temple and studied the arts of longevity under its Taoist priests.
Qingfeng Temple was not large. From True Person Qingfeng, the temple master, down to the young novice Taoists who had only just entered its gates, there were barely a hundred people in all. It had never held much fame in the cultivation world.
Though Tu Lin was young, his exceptional talent in cultivation had earned True Person Qingfeng's favor. He had been accepted as his final disciple, becoming the youngest among Qingfeng Temple's second-generation disciples. Though life was poor, under the care of his senior brothers, senior sisters, he had lived happily and freely.
Until a year ago, when the fiends of Wuji Palace attacked Qingfeng Temple's mountain gate!
As it turned out...
His master, True Person Qingfeng, was none other than Li Feng, True Person Li—the righteous Rogue Cultivator whose name had once shaken the world.
Around fifty years ago, shortly after True Person Li formed his Origin Core, he had relied on a Divine Light Incantation of unknown origin to slay demons and eradicate devils everywhere. Countless demonic cultivators and fiends had died by his hand.
Later, True Person Li came into conflict with Wuji Palace, whose demonic flames had soared to the heavens. He killed over a