Since antiquity, those who follow Heaven are Heaven and Earth’s favored children—yet even such darlings bear the body of an ant. My Way is not to go with Heaven, but to follow what stirs my heart: to go against Heaven, to cultivate in defiance of the immortals. I seek not only long life, but to cast off that ant-like lot—this is what it means to go against. The Dao rests in human choosing. After many turns of fate, the youth Wang Lin steps onto the immortal path with only middling aptitude; through tempests and trials, relying on a keen and lucid mind, he at last attains the immemorial Immortal Way. To go with it is to be mortal; to go against it is to be immortal—separated by a single thought. In the end, what does cultivation cultivate? The Dao, immortality, truth. Divine powers, Daoist arts, immortal arts. Vengeance, battlefields, the dream-path, cave-heavens, Xiangang… Watch Wang Lin climb step by step to the summit and, by his own strength, make his name ring through the cultivation world.