“My disciple, you go forth on behalf of our sect, to finish a wager begun ten thousand years ago.”
On the night of the Seven Stars aligning, Lin Xuan carries the compass of his ancestral master, Peng Zu, and steps into another world where martial arts reach the divine.
This is the world where Peng Zu was gravely wounded and forced to retreat, the homeland where the legacy of Daoist arts was severed.
The warriors of this world possess dragonlike vitality. They suppress evil with brute force and pay for disasters with human lives, repeating the same cycle for ten thousand years.
The Heavenly Dao of this world fears longevity and rejects reason, regarding the “Dao” as an anomaly that must be erased.
Lin Xuan awakens here as the sole “ember of Daoist arts.”
He reads faces, divines the future, draws talismans, and arranges formations, resolving “anomalies” in ways warriors cannot understand, even though those anomalies inflict devastating casualties on them.
But every time he casts a spell, the Heavenly Dao's backlash follows like a shadow: shortened life, bloody coughing, and collapsing fortune.
At the cost of his own well-being, he shows that another way is possible: deliverance instead of destruction, guidance instead of suppression, understanding instead of fear.
Yet he knows he is no ordinary transmigrator.
He is the seventy-third generation and sole inheritor of the Xuanwei Abbey, the final piece Peng Zu set in motion after ten thousand years.
His compass points toward the secret behind the annihilation of ancient Daoist arts.
Every strange occurrence he encounters may be connected to the truth behind the Dao-Martial conflict of ten thousand years ago.
Every person he helps may bear a burden of rewritten history.
“Warriors pay with their flesh and blood to protect the present.”
“Daoists pay with their lives to seek the source.”
And the ultimate price Lin Xuan must pay is to finish the unfinished game on behalf of his ancestral master, winning the “Dao” a future in this world that rejects it, and seeking an answer.
As hidden dragons rise under his guidance, and lost talismanic runes
