Wandering in the Age of Declining Dharma, I Wield the Banner of Calamities

In 2025, a sudden phenomenon known as "Filthy Qi Reflux" struck the world. This was not a spiritual qi revival. Instead, the filthy qi of heaven and earth, sealed away by ancient cultivators, broke through its restraints because of industrial pollution, throwing the world's rules into chaos.

The laws of the present world: good deeds bring no good rewards, and evil deeds bring no bad consequences. Those who do good may die sudden deaths, while those who do evil may be blessed. The moral order has collapsed.

The "Fortune and Misfortune Scale": Everyone is born carrying invisible values of fortune and misfortune. Taking a life does not necessarily increase misfortune, and saving someone may instead diminish one's fortune. It is completely unpredictable.

Jiangcheng Funeral Home, night, heavy rain.

Jiang Huai embalmed the seventh charity volunteer to die in an "accident" and discovered faint gray lines on the left wrists of every deceased person.

Using his family's inherited "Qi-Reading Technique," he saw that the dead were surrounded by "abundant fortune, being swallowed by black lines," which defied common sense.

A mysterious old woman came to visit and asked him to "use this gold ring to curse Wang Jianguo to death." The ring she handed him was none other than his grandfather's.