The Mysterious Martial World, Beginning with a Mystic

My name is Jiang Ning. In my previous life, I was a master magician. In this life, I’m a con artist. Mixing modern magic with traditional Chinese illusion tricks, I’ve made a great living in this ancient martial world. I toy with truth and illusion at my fingertips; paper dolls dance and hover in midair. The common folk call me a “little immortal,” and I lead a carefree, happy life. I thought this was just an ordinary ancient world where you could get by on “skill” and “quick hands.” That is, until the day a man in blue came to challenge me. With a wave of his hand, every mechanism and prop I relied on failed. The paper dolls crumbled to ash, and the threads spontaneously combusted. He watched me with a sneer and said I had unwittingly touched the edge of a power called “the Uncanny Order.” He told me that everything in this world has its own inherent sequence. True power lies in glimpsing and altering the order of heaven and earth. In that moment, my entire understanding of the world collapsed. The uncanny symbols that appeared at my fingertips were far beyond anything I could comprehend. This... really wasn’t magic!