The Fragmentary Scroll: Seeking the Dao is a sweeping fantasy epic blending classical xianxia with Cthulhu-esque horror. The story begins with the emergence of the Void's Fragmentary Scroll, rumored to offer a glimpse into the ultimate workings of Heaven's Dao, setting off a bloody storm across the martial world and cultivation realm. In Luzhou City, Qin Yue, a secrets-haunted wine drinker in blue, becomes caught up in the catastrophe while carrying out the last request of his old friend Mu Changfeng. He meets Su Wan, a Nascent Soul cultivator who possesses the lower half of the scroll and is hunted by every faction.
The two discover that the scroll records no immortal arts. Instead, it concerns a disaster that has endured since time immemorial. The power of the underworld is no demonic force from beyond the heavens, but the manifestation of the world's own source-born calamity of "annihilation." The Nether Pavilion seeks power and schemes to open the Ruins Well, but is really just inviting its own destruction. Their only hope is to find Xiao Qi, a descendant of the Star Pivot Clan, and her Star Chart of Return to the Void. It can pinpoint the trail of the True Man of the Great Void and help them find a way to reverse the disaster.
The three journey onward, recalibrating ancient coordinates and fighting off the Nether Pavilion's attacks, gradually uncovering the tragic mission of the Tomb Guardians and the otherworldly secrets of the Skywatchers. At last, they descend into the source of all tribulations, the "Ruins," witness the truth behind the True Man of the Great Void's fall, and realize that the "calamity" is the shadow cast by a civilization's rising entropy. At the cost of his own life, Qin Yue reverses the path home and turns the calamity into fuel, winning the world a slim chance of survival.
With its grand worldbuilding, the novel explores the eternal questions of existence and extinction, order and chaos. Beneath the martial world's clashes of blades and the underworld's unfathomable dangers, it tells a magnificent tale of protection, sacrifice, and finding hope in despair.
