When down-and-out stock analyst Lu Ming first saw candlestick charts writhing like living things and heard financial reports turn into madness-inducing whispers, he realized he had glimpsed the terrifying truth about the world: global stock markets were nothing but the dreams of an ancient, slumbering being known as the Beast of Wealth.
He abandoned reason and cultivated the unfathomable state of No-Mind, trading within dreams and battling the market's mutated minions. Every trading halt marked the Old One turning in its sleep; every bull-market frenzy was a collective sacrifice offered to it. Lu Ming's goal was to find the legendary Gate of Truth and seal it away again before the Beast of Wealth fully awoke and dragged the real world into financial chaos.
This is a cultivation journey along the edge of madness. His opponent is the concept itself, and his battlefield is the sea of all living minds. But when he finally stands before the Gate of Truth, the ultimate choice he faces is this: seal away the monstrous beast that brings disaster but also breeds prosperity, or enter into a dangerous symbiosis with it? Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly. Perhaps reality itself is the most indescribable candlestick chart of all.
