Xuan Fan, an unemployed young man in the city, inexplicably lands a job on a construction crew restoring a thousand-year-old temple. While working, he discovers a legendary manual. According to folklore, it was an unparalleled text that Tang Xuanzang realized while translating the scriptures he brought back from his journey west. Mastering its secrets can break the seals on wisdom and inner demons, grant one access to the Three Realms, reveal the nature of all beings, and bring order to chaos. The gods and demons of both realms go mad for the book, plunging the Three Realms into a Dark Age…
