On the day he first met a cultivator, Yaan's life was changed forever.

All that he cared for was ripped away from him. He was forced into a despair-inducing situation, but he endured, he fought, he refused to give up.

But why did he persevere, what drove him to go on?

With nothing to return to, his hatred and rage fuelled his will to survive…

But hatred begets more hatred and the flames of rage are extinguished with time. He was desperately clinging to any thread of meaning that he could find, but heated emotions do not last forever, and ambitions are rarely easily achieved. A person changes over time, often into that which they once despised…

Life…is a struggle. A struggle against the world, a struggle against our own nature, and a struggle against fate. This is the tale of a lone person's struggle through a twisted world, and his desperate attempt to resist his desolate fate.