The truth about the Dharma-ending era
Everyone knows that the spiritual energy has faded and the immortal path has not prospered because the world has entered the Age of Ending Dharma. This is the law of nature, the cycle of heaven, and the fate that all monks have to accept.
But no one has thought about a question: Why do all the techniques that have been passed down happen to be missing a few key points?
It's not that one person tampered with it, but that someone changed it in every era; it's not that the family's words were lost, but that each of the five thousand volumes of the Taoist Canon has been tampered with.
The modifications are extremely subtle—sometimes a taboo word replaces a term, sometimes an annotation is mixed into the text, and sometimes the same scripture appears in completely opposite order of cultivation in the southern version and the northern version.
Taken individually, these changes look like honest mistakes. But when all unintentional mistakes point in the same direction - making it impossible for latecomers to truly succeed in cultivation - this is no accident.
This is murder. The murder of the entire civilization of cultivating immortals. Murder spanning thousands of years.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.