Shen Mo, an intangible cultural heritage scholar, is reborn as the good-for-nothing young heir of a cultivation family, but binds himself to the [Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Guardian System]. Mortise-and-tenon joinery can build an impregnable city, shadow puppetry can summon armies, a single guqin melody can steady the earth’s ley lines, and half a scroll of embroidery can subdue mountains and rivers.
In a world where civilization has been severed and spiritual power reigns supreme, he is forced to raise the broken hammer of the Marquis Yi of Zeng’s chime bells. With these lost “crafts” as his blade, he declares war on the Heavenly Principles Alliance, which monopolizes the path of cultivation.
As the survivors of the Hundred Schools awaken among the ruins, and lost arts become laws that reach the heavens, the cultivation world discovers in terror that the “trivial tricks and clever devices” it fears are none other than the civilization that vanished three hundred years ago.
