Three thousand years ago, Ji Fa used mathematics as a prison and dragon veins as chains, sealing off the path to ascension for every cultivator in the world.
Since then, there have been no immortals in the world, only a prison called the Dragon-Locking Platform, devouring the souls of generation after generation who try to break through its shackles.
Shen Qing, a descendant of the Shen family, carries a copper coin key that recognizes its master.
All he wanted was to rescue his mother from the prison, but step by step, he uncovered a shocking scam spanning three thousand years:
It turned out that the so-called ascension was nothing more than a carefully designed sacrifice.
It turned out that Ji Fa had never left. He had encoded himself into the prison's algorithms and become... the System.
To open the prison, Shen Qing must find eight meridian guides:
Liu Hui, who could calculate all under heaven; Zhang Heng, who could read fate in the stars; Li Daoyuan, who controlled the waterways; Monk Yixing, who measured time...
The eight guides and eight lesser dragon veins are united by the same conviction:
