To honor the final wishes of his revered master, Liu Dashao, the inheritor of the Celestial Masters' Way, traced a path that nearly spanned the known world—from the frozen reaches of the northern kingdoms to the verdant expanses of the southern frontiers, across the desolate tracts of the Western Regions and the boundless expanse of the Eastern Sea. With the arcane Taoist arts he had mastered, he drove out haunting spirits, banished malevolent demons, and subdued the most wicked of fiends.