On a summer night in 2020, a bizarre car accident sends Zhao Qin, an eighteen-year-old orphan with the same name as his counterpart, into the parallel-universe Blue Star. When he wakes up, he finds that he has become a wilderness survival blogger at a top university, and that an immense spirit-spring realm is bound to his mind: 25,000 square kilometers containing mountains, grasslands, black soil, spirit springs, and a mysterious courtyard house. A bonus bundle of skills in wilderness survival, martial arts, and traditional Chinese medicine, along with a Marrow-Cleansing Pill that will take six months to transform him, seem to signal the end of his ordinary life.
Zhao Qin only wants to farm quietly and make ends meet through livestreaming. But during an ordinary broadcast, his campus crush, Hong Ya, is in danger. In a panic, he projects his thoughts outward and makes a deadly venomous snake “vanish into thin air,” instantly setting the internet ablaze with talk of “the greatest special effects ever.” His peaceful life is shattered. The inhuman senses gradually brought on by the Marrow-Cleansing Pill, and the rare medicinal herbs he hunts and stockpiles in his realm, begin to attract greedy eyes in the shadows. When Hong Ya points out in an ancient book that a mountain in the realm looks just like Mount Zhaoyao from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and unknown bronze markings emerge from the depths of the spirit spring beneath the courtyard house, Zhao Qin finally realizes that this realm is no simple golden finger. It is the last spark of a lost civilization, and a responsibility left behind. Between the bustle of the city and the call of the wilderness, he must protect the secret, uncover the truth, and join like-minded companions on a survival journey filled with warmth, adventure, and the unknown.
**Core themes:** Urban life, wilderness exploration, slow-paced growth, warm relationships, pocket-space farming, mystery and discovery. No cultivation, no interstellar travel, and no absolute invincibility. The focus is on making sensible use of the realm’s resources
