On his 22nd birthday, Su Han, a history student at Binhai University, touches his family’s ancestral jade pendant and awakens an ability to appraise treasures, along with a lotus-shaped “Heavenly Vein Blood” mark in his palm. He glimpses the past-life memories of the young master of the ancient cultivation clan, the Heavenly Vein Pavilion, and is drawn into a century-long struggle among the Eight Hidden Sects over Binhai City’s “Primordial Spirit Vein.” Gu Jiuniang, the Holy Maiden of the Qinglan Sect who runs an antiques shop in public, and Elder Zhou, museum director and master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, emerge to reveal the secrets behind the Heavenly Vein Pavilion’s annihilation and the seal on the Primordial Scripture.
Using a bronze compass to sense the spirit vein’s nodes, Su Han enters the cultivation world under Gu Jiuniang’s protection, only to discover that the Qinglan Sect is secretly allied with the Blood Fiend Hall of the Demon Sect, while the Tang family controls auctions of spiritual treasures. His blood is both the key to activating the Primordial Scripture and a “living seal” coveted by every faction. As the Blood-Handed Butcher resurfaces and memories of his past life return, Su Han finds that when appraising antiques, he can see not only their threads of causality, but also the brutal power struggles among the Eight Hidden Sects. With the spirit vein on the verge of depletion, some seek to drain it to resurrect the Demon Sect, while others will stop at nothing to protect their legacy. As the “Keeper of the Scripture,” Su Han faces the difficult choice of restoring the spirit vein or reviving his family.
As modern urban infrastructure overlaps with ancient spirit veins, Wi-Fi signals resonate with message talismans. Su Han will merge the Heavenly Vein Blood with the city’s spirit vein and forge a new order of “urban cultivation.” Gu Jiuniang gives up her Holy Maiden status to guard the spirit vein nodes with him, while Tang Wei uses magical artifacts of commerce to balance the worlds of cultivation and ordinary life. Then a letter from Kunlun Void opens the door to a much greater world, setting the stage for a cycle of cause and effect spanning a hundred years.
