I Guard This World, Waiting for a Promise No One Will Keep

[No heroine + no dumb decisions + no cultivation, a clean read]

I always thought that saying goodbye

required some grand ceremony.

So I kept waiting,

waiting to hear a heartfelt farewell.

Only in the end did I realize

that most goodbyes in life

happen without a sound.

The road ahead may not be long,

and we may never meet again, even if we cross mountains and rivers.

In the Battle of Zhengzhou, the people of Huaxia’s mystic sects burned through their lifespans to fight the enemy. A thousand lives were sacrificed to protect the nation’s dragon vein. Only Zhang Gu survived, barely clinging to life before falling into a deep slumber. He and his comrades had promised to celebrate their victory with drinks, but in the end, no one was left to honor that promise.

A year later, Zhang Gu awoke with an unnamed heavenly tome in his possession. He turned down every special privilege and returned to ordinary life, running a small supermarket and going back to being just an ordinary shopkeeper.

But the world underwent a drastic change. The dragon vein’s protection mysteriously vanished, strange murders spread, and evil spirits appeared everywhere. In the end, the burden of protecting Huaxia fell on his shoulders alone.