Doupo Cangqiong

Xiao Yan was once the brightest young talent of his clan, until his cultivation inexplicably began slipping away. Three years of decline turn admiration into ridicule, and the humiliation reaches its peak when his fiancée Nalan Yanran arrives to break their engagement in front of his family.

The cause of Xiao Yan's lost power is finally revealed when the spirit of the master Yao Lao awakens from the ring he carries. Under a teacher with extraordinary knowledge, Xiao Yan begins rebuilding himself from the bottom and accepts a challenge that will test whether he can reclaim his pride. His path leads beyond clan walls into a world where strength decides status and every advance demands a price.