When the blood jade of Kunlun Ruins opens its eyes, an ancient pact, long forgotten, begins to awaken. Qi Cang, a young herb gatherer bearing the remnant soul of an ancestral shaman, follows the storyteller’s bronze staff toward the Heavenly Pillar, fated to collapse. The demon princess’s vow of silence, the tomb raider’s compass, the Sky-Watcher’s fragmentary scroll: every thread of fate points to the same lie. Cultivation, they say, is nothing more than a prayer at the descendants of the gods’ banquet table. This time, humanity will burn the Investiture of the Gods with earthfire and shatter Mount Buzhou with its own backbone.
