You Asked Me to Fix Junk, So Why Did I Piece Together a National Treasure?

[Max-Level Expert in the Beginner Village + Hard-Core Technical Craftsmanship + Dimensional Domination + Cultural Revival]

The wasteland era has severed history.

In this twisted world, the plutocrats monopolize what remains of cultural discourse. The so-called top experts are using 502 chemical glue to crudely piece together millennia-old masterpieces, laser-welding bronze artifacts until their crystal structures are ruined, and mass-producing soulless perfect fakes with industrial resin.

The true treasures of Chinese civilization are dismissed as radioactive waste and buried beneath the yellow sands and ruins.

Shen Weiming, a top-level cultural relic restorer in his previous life, opens his eyes to find a fragment of Ru ware being drilled into. His professional compulsion flares up on the spot.

“What you're doing isn't preservation. It's digging a grave for history. Get out of the way.”

A homemade bamboo knife. A bowl of traditional paste.

From lifting a thousand-year-old scroll with clean water to save it, to using the art of kintsugi to restore a shattered piece of Ru ware to its clear, sky-blue hue; from searching deep in the mountains for timber and rebuilding a thousand-year-old wooden pagoda with intricate joinery, to repainting flying celestial maidens on sheer cliffs from memory...

With techniques so ancient they seem miraculous, Shen Weiming pieces this shattered world back together, one piece at a time.

At the Federation's most prestigious music gala, the plutocrats play synthesized perfect divine music through brain-computer interfaces, brainwashing all of humanity.

Shen Weiming takes the stage with a battered ancient zither, a piece of rotten wood in the eyes of the powerful.

No power supply. No synthesizer.

He burns incense, washes his hands, and plucks a string made by boiling silkworm silk from the mutated wasteland using an ancient method.

A rendition of Guangling San: clashing armies and iron steeds, a divine sound that rends the air!