The Heavenly Rankings Exposed Me for Lying Flat

This is a world where the martial arts realms of Jin, Gu, Liang, and Wen have been forcibly stitched together. A ranking board hangs in the sky, and no one can change it. The protagonist wants to spend his whole life running a teahouse, but every month, in front of the entire world, the board insists on revealing one more detail about his past.

One night twenty years ago, a crack appeared in the sky screen and remained open for three days and three nights. Once it closed, the martial arts realms of the various schools merged into one. Sects, people, and martial arts that had once had nothing to do with one another now appeared on the same map.

On the first day of the first lunar month after the sky split, the World Rankings appeared in the sky for the first time. From then on, they have never failed to appear on the first of each month.

The timelines have become tangled as well. People who should have lived a century apart in the original stories may now be contemporaries. People who should have died may still be alive. Secret manuals that should have just surfaced may already have been acquired by someone.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.