In this world, practitioners who do not exhale spiritual energy and do not understand the Great Way are called "discriminators".
Everything has its "reason", mountains and rivers have their own principles, rivers have their water principles, and life and death have their destiny. A discerner is a being who can understand, analyze and even tamper with these "reasons".
Gu Chen, a little-known librarian in the "Wanli Pavilion", the royal library of the Great Xia Dynasty, had only one pursuit in his life - to get off work on time and make a pot of tea at the right temperature.
He has no interest in getting promoted and making money, and he stays away from slaying demons. In the eyes of the world, he is just a salty fish with no ambition.
However, when a strange phenomenon called "silence" began to erode the world, reducing the principle of all things to nothingness and turning it into a dead "zone of silence", all the discerners were helpless.
Only Gu Chen could see a different "line" in that void.
His eyes, which always looked like they were awake, saw not power or realm, but the code that constituted the lowest level of the world.
When everyone wanted to be the sword holder, he was forced to become the... Pen holder.
