On a cloudy day, a strange beast launches a surprise attack.
While out on a spring excursion, Tang Dai watches his teacher die. Cornered, he awakens his "Fate Chart" and transforms into a strange puppet figure, using a garrote wire to strike back and kill the beast.
When the strange beast dies, it drops a line of poetry: "I laugh as I brandish my blade toward the sky; whether I stay or go, my gallant spirit stands with the Kunlun Mountains."
Tang Dai is dumbfounded. "What's going on? How does it know that line?"
Days later, after killing another strange beast, he gets a gold coin drop. The coins turn into a storm, blocking out the light in one corner of the world for three days.
Tang Dai is furious. "How are people supposed to live if we don't kill it!"
Months later, he kills another strange beast, and an Encyclopedia appears as a drop.
Tang Dai and his companions realize that civilization and knowledge in this world actually come from hunting strange beasts!
Where do the strange beasts come from, and why are they like this?
As the horrifying truth is gradually revealed, Tang Dai discovers that this world is actually...
