After years of arduous cultivation, Zhang Yuan finally achieved immortality and ascended beyond the mortal world. Yet instead of reaching the paradise he had imagined, he awakens in a strange and terrifying realm unlike anything he has ever known.

Here, the heavens are ruled by incomprehensible immortals and Buddhas whose power borders on the divine. To them, ordinary humans are nothing more than livestock, existing solely to be used and discarded. Across the land, horrifying abnormalities lurk in every corner, twisting reality and turning survival into a constant struggle.

Even the cultivators who endure in this world are no longer truly human.

Neither alive nor dead, neither mortal nor spirit, they exist as something disturbingly in between.

Faced with such a nightmarish reality, many would seek to save the world or challenge the powers that govern it. Zhang Yuan has no such ambitions. His only goal is simple: cultivate once more, ascend again, and return to the immortal realm he originally came from.

But as he delves deeper into the secrets of this broken world, he begins to uncover unsettling truths about the heavens, the immortals, and the path of ascension itself.

What if the immortal realm he longs for no longer exists?

And what if the road back was never real to begin with?

As mysteries unravel and unimaginable horrors emerge, Zhang Yuan must decide whether to continue chasing his former destination—or confront the terrifying truth hidden beyond the heavens.