Three hundred years into the Great Yin Dynasty, spiritual energy has run dry, the Nine Provinces have become a wasteland, and demonic beasts roam unchecked. The Divine City of Zhongzhou clings to life with the help of ancestral relics, while the feudal lords of the other eight provinces carve up the land and wage war.
Xiao Jingheng, heir to the imperial family, was exiled to a frigid northern city as a child. For ten years, he endured in silence, pretending to be insane and playing the fool. Pei Yuanli, a powerful minister at court, commands the military and plots to seize the throne. Danger lurks at every turn.
When demonic beasts attack the city, Xiao Jingheng activates a seal with formation markings and saves the people, but exposes his own talents. In the midst of the crisis, he unexpectedly gains a golden finger.
The Record of Drawing Spiritual Energy from the Great Void can decipher ancient runes and deduce how to revive spiritual ley lines. His bloodline mutates, and his blood can bring dead wood back to life.
While others seek spiritual energy in vain, he can resonate with heaven and earth. A streetwise ne'er-do-well becomes a master planner, and the pawn in the powerful minister's eyes becomes the one who turns the tables.
While everyone else is still fighting over scraps of spiritual energy, he has already grasped the key to restarting the spiritual ley lines of the Nine Provinces.
The wasteland will eventually fade away. When the tide of spiritual energy sweeps across the land, he will stand atop the sea of stars and reshape the world.
