Paimon is a world still in it's infancy. People know about cultivation, cultivating the elements, but they don't fully understand it. They haven't reached what they believe can be the heights.
A once strong and powerful cultivator and teacher retires. All he desires is peace with his wife, and to give her a child for them to raise.They reside in a small village where he's elected as the village protector. Everything is going well in their lives, until a mysterious oracle shows up to their village with a cryptic warning that the Kami, the gods of the world, are up to no good.
Silas wakes up, his town destroyed, and his power gone. The apprentice he was coerced to have and his wife, also gone. He has to uncover a plot by a rogue kami while discovering why he is powerless while he tries to find out what happened to his wife.