Jiang Chen, a scholar of ancient texts who knows the Classic of Mountains and Seas by heart, transmigrates into the body of the Liang Kingdom’s most despised and impoverished prince.
His mother’s family was framed and wiped out. He was driven from the capital, and even at the royal ancestral sacrifice, someone deliberately smashed the ceremonial heart-lamp, hoping he would die in the underground palace and never be reincarnated.
What they didn’t know was that the underground palace enshrined the long-lost original manuscript of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
The moment his fingertips touched the scroll, Jiang Chen awakened. The [Source Codex of the Classic of Mountains and Seas] slowly unfolded in the depths of his soul. This was no ordinary geographical text, but the final testament left to the world by the ancient gods. Whoever possesses it can perceive the essence of all things, commune with the bloodlines of all spirits, and chart the evolution of strange beasts.
But the book was incomplete.
At the same time, cracks appeared in the “Shanhai Realm,” which maintained the world’s balance. Sealed ferocious beasts stirred, and spiritual energy was rapidly vanishing. Unless the Classic of Mountains and Seas was completed and the Shanhai Realm restored, the world would face a catastrophe in which spiritual cultivation came to an end.
So the prince who had once been trampled underfoot stepped beyond the imperial city.
Mount Zhaoyao, the wilds of Qingqiu, the Abyss of Buting, Mount Liubo…
He traveled every inch of land recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, gathering strange beasts, forming contracts with divine beasts, tracing ancient divine patterns, and unlocking mythical armaments. When he finally stood before the last crack that needed mending, all the countless beings of the Shanhai world stood behind him.
“In my previous life, I studied them only among dusty old books.”
“In this life, I’ll make the entire Classic of Mountains and Seas come alive for me.”
