Across three thousand worlds, martial arts reign supreme. On the Nine Heavens Continent, martial artists can move mountains and fill seas, while the strongest can pluck stars from the sky and seize the moon.
He was once the youngest ninth-grade talisman master in the Nine Heavens Continent in a million years, able to shape mountains and rivers with a single stroke and pierce the firmament with a single talisman. But his beloved and his junior brother betrayed him together. They used a forbidden formation to drain his bloodline, steal his Dao bones, and destroy his soul. As he died, he left them with one final vow: “If I am granted another life, I will wield talismans as blades and devour everyone who wronged me.”
When he opens his eyes again, he has become Gu Yunzhou, the most lowly good-for-nothing bastard son of the Gu family in Yunzhou.
His meridians are shattered, he is regarded as the shame of the clan, and even the servants can bully him. Worse still, the original owner of this body was beaten by his own clan brother until his meridians broke, then abandoned in a woodshed to die.
But they do not know that, that very night, the remnant soul of a man who once stood at the summit quietly took possession of this broken body.
His meridians are shattered? In his previous life, as the foremost talisman master, he had already mastered the forbidden art of using qi and blood as ink and bones as talismans. He can cultivate without meridians.
He has mediocre potential? Though his soul power is damaged, it still bears the mark of a ninth-grade talisman master: as long as the talismans remain, his soul endures; even if the talismans are destroyed, his soul will not perish.
In this life, he will trust no one again.
With no sect to rely on, he will use the power of talismans to build a force of his own, step by step. One stroke can gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth; one talisman can summon an army of thousands. Making the Way of Talismans his foundation and strategy his blade, he secretly lays out a game that could overturn the entire Nine Heavens Continent.
His beloved, who once betrayed him, now rules the world as a holy maiden, while the junior brother who once schemed against him has become a grandmaster of his generation.
At the edge of an abyss ten thousand feet deep, Gu Yunzhou lifts his brush and writes in midair. Behind him, myriad talismans ring out in unison, and the heavens and earth change color.
