Chen Guan transmigrates into a cultivation world, becoming a good-for-nothing with shattered spiritual roots and little time left to live. In this age of declining spiritual energy and fading Daoist arts, the traditional path of cultivation is a dead end.
Yet his golden finger isn't some heaven-defying cultivation technique. It's a dilapidated Museum of Intangible Cultural Heritage and a Myriad Forms Celestial Craftsman's Mirror that can appraise anything. He discovers that this immortal realm may possess the power to destroy heaven and earth, but it has lost the roots of its civilization: ancient crafts have vanished, and all that remains in people's hearts is the law of the jungle.
So while cultivators fight tooth and nail over incomplete ancient treasures, Chen Guan quietly picks up his carving knife and scissors:
· A performance of "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix," with suona music that breaks spells and calms souls;
· A lost Jun ware Tianmu tea bowl, whose glaze contains a world of its own;
· A set of battlefield shadow puppets, whose cutout silhouettes become thousands of soldiers and horses.
His museum becomes the immortal realm's greatest anomaly. The strong find enlightenment there, the wounded recover, and lost history comes back to life. Then the apocalypse arrives, and the traditional path of cultivation is powerless. Countless eyes turn toward the young curator who is always smiling.
Facing the heavens, Chen Guan smiles calmly. "Tell me, everyone: do you know the power of... civilization?"
