Chen Mo, a down-and-out ancient book restorer, accepts a mysterious commission from the Hanhai Group to restore a fragment of the "Yongle Dadian" whose origin is unknown in order to pay for the sky-high price of treatment for his sister's "textual aphasia". The moment his fingertips were stained with blood, the seal character "burn" on the broken page actually ignited real fire. He was shocked to realize that he had awakened the "power of controlling characters": the Chinese characters he wrote could be visualized, splitting the characters into blades and combining them into shields, and the interpretation could trigger visions in the world.
His roommate died mysteriously, and the condition of his death was exactly the same as the word "fall" on his draft. Chen Mo became the number one suspect. On the way to escape, he encounters Dr. Lin Xi, a doctor of archaeology - the daughter of an ancient book master who traced the disappearance of the "Cangjie Fragment" ten years ago. The bronze "Cang" seal in her hand mysteriously resonates with the mark on the fragment.
It turns out that the broken page is one of the "Nine Volumes of Cangjie", which hides the "soul" of the origin of Chinese characters. Collecting the nine volumes can form a "Nine-Character Formation", which can not only seal the remaining souls of chaos that have eroded civilization, but also restart the world. The "Chaos Society" behind the Hanhai Group is pressing forward step by step, trying to seize the remaining scrolls to awaken Chi You; the good and evil personalities in Chen Mo's body are in fierce confrontation, and his evil thoughts are constantly being eroded by the remnants of the chaotic soul.
With the countdown to his sister's life on one side and the crisis of survival of the Chinese civilization on the other, Chen Mo, with the obsession of "characters have bones and writings," teamed up with Lin Xi, a former hacker on the road to redemption, and an awakened former opponent. They traveled to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, the Secret Pavilion of the Forbidden City, and the Luoshui Ancient Site, and cracked the Cangjie code among the clues in the restoration of ancient books. Using pen and ink as a soldier and seal characters as a shield, he fought against the power of the soul of characters distorted by desire.
This is a redemption battle for a little guy.
