A Lowly Clerk’s Rise Begins with an Official Seal

In the third year of Yong'an under the Great Zhou Dynasty, the realm is on the brink of chaos.

In Qingyang County, Jiangnan, the impoverished scholar Shen Changge fails the imperial examination and is reduced to the lowest-ranking clerk in the county yamen. By chance, he finds an ancient bronze seal engraved with archaic script in the yamen's cellar. It is called the “Heavenly Mandate Record Seal,” and can record every cause, effect, merit, and sin in the world in its pages.

Whoever holds this seal can read the rise and fall of ages, judge good and evil and their consequences, and draw on the wisdom of those who came before to cultivate the supreme Great Dao.

Beginning with a bloody massacre that wipes out an entire household in Qingyang County, Shen Changge embarks on a path of cultivation that joins the official and immortal worlds. He discovers that beneath the foundations of the Great Zhou Dynasty lies a shocking conspiracy spanning ten thousand years. And the previous owner of the bronze seal was none other than the supreme ruler of heaven and earth ten thousand years ago.

Cultivators don't concern themselves with the affairs of mortals? No. The celestial officials above and the imperial court below are part of the same System.

As his official rank rises, so does his cultivation. From ninth rank to first, from mortal to immortal, from county magistrate to lord of all worlds.

This is a ten-thousand-year legend about how the official path is the Heavenly Dao.