Once the brightest talent his clan had produced in Dou Qi cultivation, Xiao Yan watches his power drain away for three straight years, until the Xiao family's prodigy is its laughing stock. When his fiancée, Nalan Yanran, arrives to break off their engagement rather than marry someone who lost his talent, the humiliated Xiao Yan ends it himself and swears that in three years he will come back and answer the insult in front of her entire sect. This Chinese web novel follows that climb through a world where combat strength, Dou Qi, decides everything.