The Ghost Valley Master's Record of Saving the World

In the east, the Xu family reads the stars; in the west, the Li family studies feng shui; in the south, the Xie family practices divination; in the north, the Wang family reads bones; and in the central region, the Qimen school commands the strange arts. All five schools trace their origins to Guigu, but after branching off and specializing, each lost sight of the whole.

Xu Tianxi, a veteran of a reconnaissance company, returns to his hometown after leaving the army. The moment he opens the door, he finds the tycoon who once called him a “feudal relic” kneeling before his grandfather and begging for help. Xu takes a hundred thousand yuan and lays out the Star-Picking and Dipper-Shifting Formation, secretly adding a binding spell: commit an injustice, and the backlash will double. The Xu family’s rule is simple: use the human heart to reflect the will of Heaven.

Twenty years ago, his father was ambushed and defeated during a Daoist debate on the Tianshan Mountains. The Guigu mystic seal was stolen, and his father vanished without a trace. His grandfather left him just one sentence: “Your father didn’t lose because of his magic.” Xu Tianxi takes over as the eighty-fourth-generation head of the sect and sets out to investigate, carrying his father’s old compass.

Jiang Ruoshui, the Jiang family’s legitimate heiress, is called “the only good-for-nothing in three hundred years who can’t activate the Qimen arts.” Yet at thirteen, she deciphered the original Guiguzi script and discovered that someone had altered the Jiang family’s core incantations. The culprit was her own grandfather. “The rot in the five schools’ legacy is buried beneath the Jiang family ancestral hall. Have you got the guts to come dig it up with me?”

The Li family’s compass points to Guixu, deep in the Gobi Desert. The Xie family’s causal divination identifies a spy among the Four Sages of Guixu overseas. The Wang family’s bone-reading ruler reveals that the star of fate has not gone out: his father is still alive.

Meanwhile, the Four Sages of Guixu, hiding overseas, will stop at nothing to seize the Guigu mystic seal before the heirs of the five families can reach it.

A seal forged two thousand years ago. A blood debt from twenty years past. The truth will emerge only when the five arts are united.