Seventeen year old Meiyin has always believed she was just a quiet girl from a quiet village. Raised by her adoptive father in a secluded mountain settlement, her days were filled with gathering herbs, tending to the sick, and listening to the wind whisper through the trees.
But her world shatters when she returns from the mountains to find her village burned and her loved ones slaughtered. Grieving and alone, Meiyin follows the only clue her father ever gave her: a distant city marked on an old map, hidden beneath the floorboards with a pouch of coins and a mysterious stone.
As she journeys beyond the only home she has ever known, Meiyin begins to sense that the world is far stranger and far more dangerous than she imagined. Whispers of spirit beasts, ancient sects, and a war between celestial and demonic factions stir at the edges of her path. Deep within her, something begins to awaken, something powerful, forgotten, and sought after.
Haunted by loss and driven by questions, Meiyin must survive in a world built on cultivation, secrets, and strength. But the truth waiting for her is one that could unravel not just her identity but the fate of the realms themselves.