Chen Haoran has tasted power and its perils and decided he wants nothing to do with it. To avoid the attention of his mysterious family and their enemies he leaves with a newfound friend to go far away from everything and everyone he knows to go South to the conquered kingdoms of Zumulu.
A land of jungles, of poison, giant insects, and factional strife between embittered natives and Imperial Authority. Here Chen Haoran seeks peace and a place in this new world. A world where the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Designs and plots have been long afoot in Zumulu before Chen Haoran ever stepped South and if he wants to survive he must do as all Cultivators do.
