The Spirit Trace Investigation Bureau

The Floating Female Corpse Case at Zixia Apartments tears open the supernatural veil over the modern city. Lin Xia, a criminal investigation prodigy, is forced to team up with the mysterious cultivator Mo Chong, but a series of copycat murders leads her to glimpse the thousand-year prophecy of the Seven Stars Aligning. As murder cases involving the reversal of the Five Elements leave star-shaped marks across the city, high-ranking cultivators suffering from runaway spiritual power vanish one after another, and the Detective Bureau gradually uncovers the official lie about the spiritual qi revival. Wei Zhenren, a living fossil of the cultivation world, reveals the astonishing secret of the Origin-Returning Spiritual Root within Lin Xia, while the Apostles of the Spiritual Tide, lurking in the upper ranks of the Spiritual Affairs Bureau, push the Spirit-Gathering Array to devour millions of lives. At the moment of their decisive battle, Lin Xia refuses to destroy the Spiritual Tide. Instead, she becomes a bridge, bringing ancient spiritual power into resonance with modern civilization and ushering in a new era where cultivators draw talismans with code and wield swords from drones. This battle to overturn everything people thought they knew is not only a clash of wits between a criminal investigation elite and a thousand-year-old cultivator, but also humanity's desperate evolution amid a raging tide of spiritual power.