[An Unsolved Mystery in the Northern Song Martial World: A Mass Murder That Proves Transmigrators Exist]
During the Chunhua era, Ye Wendao descended from the Tianshan Mountains to pursue his studies. He disliked the mysterious and the unreal, and devoted himself to the teachings of Confucius and Zhou in the East. After traveling through the Central Plains, he established a system of understanding based on “principle,” convinced that all things in the world were governed by the same natural laws.
Soon afterward, the horrifying Yuzhang Tragedy erupted in the martial world. More than a hundred martial arts masters were slaughtered like grass beneath a scythe. The killer's swordsmanship was transcendent, and their knowledge and skills were beyond what anyone could master in a limited human lifetime. This shattered the belief system Ye Wendao had only just built.
What he discovered in the investigation that followed forced Ye Wendao to reconsider the questions that had troubled him during his studies: Can the future be predicted? Can history be changed? Do people have free will? Can one pursue immortality? Is it possible to achieve omniscience and omnipotence? Is there a higher existence above humanity?
With these questions in mind, Ye Wendao began his second quest to understand the world.
