When the law is your only weapon, how will you pass judgment on the gods?
Shen Mo, an ordinary top law student, accidentally stumbles upon the “dark world” lurking beneath the modern city. Here, a “contract” can drain the life from someone, while a “prohibition” can twist reality. Unable to cultivate traditional supernatural arts, he unexpectedly obtains a lost divine artifact: The Primordial Legal Code.
From then on, he wields the Staff of Truth and uses the law as his blade. When his enemies try to overpower the law by force, he opens his “Court Domain” and sentences them on the spot. When corporate titans manipulate the rules, he enacts the Anti-Monopoly Law and calls down heavenly punishment. From writing humble “spirit contracts” to laying down a “constitution” for an entire city, his cultivation advances with every judgment.
However, he gradually discovers that the world's chaos stems from the Heavenly Way being infected by a “chaos virus.” Former companions split from him over their beliefs, and his beloved, the sword cultivator Ling Shuang, scatters her soul to buy him time. In the end, to mend the Heavenly Way and restore order, he must sever every karmic connection to the world, making everyone, including the woman he loves, completely forget that he ever existed.
This is a path that begins with reason and ends in solitude. With everything he has learned in his lifetime, he will deliver a lasting verdict to this disordered world, ushering in a lonely age of prosperity that no one will remember.
