Bai Yan traveled to a Ming Dynasty that was eroded by the "Sea of Chaos" and filled with weird things.
The sage classics here are not empty moral articles, but contain the mysterious power to fight against madness and evil spirits.
The imperial examination room is no longer a simple contest of pen and ink, but a strange and mysterious place where reality is distorted and life and death are momentary.
With a "rational analytical compass" that can analyze the rules of all things, and an "innocent heart" that is extremely resistant to mental pollution, Bai Yan fought through the bloody winds of the county, prefecture, and township examinations, rising step by step.
However, Bai Yan soon discovered that the most terrifying thing was not the evil spirits in the examination room, but the turbulent disputes in the court.
The "peace-making faction" wants to use the power of the evil god to continue the country.
The "Purification Sect" vows to eliminate all weirdness.
In the end, he discovered that the emperor sitting on the dragon throne was the one who signed a contract with the being in the deepest part of the Chaos Sea.
Bai Yan is forced into the whirlpool. He must use his pen as a sword and his awe-inspiring righteousness as a shield to carve out a path forward for the human race between science and madness, loyalty and betrayal, humanity and divinity.
