Life can be long if you're immortal. And too short if you're not careful. Johan has spent centuries walking the earth and thought he'd already experienced everything. But when he meets North, his immortality has never seemed so endless.

Three years ago, Chen Yang's wife, Zhao Yanran, left their village to pursue immortality. He remained behind, faithfully waiting for her return. When she finally comes home, three senior disciples accompany her-and they are far more than fellow cultivators. Zhao Yanran claims that a deadly love gu left her with only one way to survive: sharing the beds of all three men and binding herself to them as their Dao companion. Now she has returned to divorce the mortal husband who waited three years for her. That night, however, she offers Chen Yang another choice: follow her into the mountains and enter the sect where she now lives with her three companions. Powerless, humiliated, and without spiritual roots, Chen Yang enters the immortal world as a lowly servant. Then a mysterious clay bowl grants him an opportunity to overturn his fate. In a world where strength determines everything-even a man's dignity-he will cultivate from the lowest rung and rise beyond everyone who once looked down on him.