The protagonist is the last descendant of the contemporary textual research school of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", who was ruined due to "academic fraud." When he burned the jade slips handed down from his ancestors together with the manuscripts he had studied throughout his life, the flames turned into a whirlpool and swallowed him into a wild world where life and death could be decided in just one breath - and he found that golden words that he had never seen before were slowly emerging on the jade slips in his palm.
