The Era of Calamity

A young man from a family of ancient-text scholars can read the underlying information in all things. A strange little city is swallowed by gray rain. And a shocking scam involving ascension, reincarnation, and the restarting of an era is unfolding.

Su Ping was a copyist at the county yamen, earning his meals by identifying ancient characters. Then the gray rain fell, inscriptions were gnawed away, passersby forgot their own names, and the sermons of the Lingxi Sect began to ring with rewritten words.

Only then did he realize:

The so-called immortal path was bait cast by the Origin Veil. The so-called ascension was a harvest initiated by the one holding the brush. Reincarnation was nothing more than a page turned over and over again.

A fragmentary scroll conceals his family's last testament. Ancient bronze reveals the truth of the world. Each time he uses a secret ritual, he edges closer to madness.

Su Ping has no invincible talent, only a body trained in ancient-form boxing, half a fragmentary scroll, and a piece of Origin Shard that grows more dangerous the more he reads it.

He doesn't intend to become an immortal.

Before he is written into a dead end, he will tear this script to pieces with his own hands.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.