Blue Star's location has been exposed, drawing the attention of countless races, and humanity has entered the interstellar age without warning.
Demon lairs descend, giant beasts invade, and gods protect the other nations. Only Great Xia has no gods to watch over it!
In this despairing age, when conventional weapons have failed, all of Great Xia joins the fight, and every able-bodied young person goes to their death.
Only Xia Xin, at the prime of his life and strong as an ox, chooses to stay behind with a group of the old, weak, and infirm, forging swords and working the smithy...
Deserter, coward, disgrace to Great Xia. The entire internet condemns him, and everyone turns against him!
As night falls, a towering phantom spreads across the skies above Great Xia.
“My name is the Way-Bringer. I transmigrate through time and space, speak with the sages of old, and pass the Great Way on to you, so that you may repel our formidable foes!”
He speaks with Suiren, witnesses the birth of the first flame of civilization, and comprehends the Great Way of the Flame!
He speaks with Shennong, witnesses Shennong tasting a hundred herbs, and comprehends the Great Way of Alchemy!
He speaks with Yu the Great, witnesses Yu surveying the Nine Provinces, gathers the fortune of the realm into the Nine Tripods, and guards the nation's borders...
One day, with nothing to do, Xia Xin sits cross-legged high above Great Xia, alone with his sword.
The gods see him and beat a hasty retreat.
“Great Xia lies ahead. A nightmare for all races!”
