Keeper of Contracts: I Made Contracts with the Ten Thousand Beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas

In 2026, urban development runs rampant, with spiritual ley lines being mined indiscriminately and rifts in the mountains and seas quietly spreading. The so-called “man-eating ferocious beasts,” vilified by the public, are appearing one after another. Jiang Chi, a young man who works at an antique shop, awakens on the brink of death during an attack by a strange beast. His ancestral bronze compass reveals the true face of the Warring States bamboo-slip edition of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, passed down for millennia, turns out to be a lie that has been altered. The mountain-and-sea beasts that protected the world were branded as man-eating monsters. As a Keeper of the Pact, Jiang Chi starts by taking in a nine-tailed fox whose contract has gone berserk. He purifies corrupted beasts while fighting the Primordial Council, which plunders spiritual ley lines and engineers massacres, gradually uncovering a sealing conspiracy from a thousand years ago.

He is a fiercely protective, reckless young man: “Anyone who lays a hand on his beasts is dead.” He clears Qiongqi’s name after it was framed, guards a thousand-year-old flame source alongside Bifang, and fights shoulder to shoulder with Tushan Yue. Each beast he contracts grants him a unique ability, and every time he stands up for his own, the action burns with intensity. From the growth born of Gudiao’s death to the epic tale of every beast rallying to his side, every moment is legendary.

When Jiang Chi has collected all 4,830 kinds of beasts, he discovers that the truth behind his parents’ disappearance is bound up with his own bloodline. And behind the seven members of the Primordial Council lies an ultimate secret capable of overturning both worlds: the true traitor was never a beast.