At night, the Blackstone Mining City is always dusted with snow-like motes of light.
People say they are a sign of flourishing spirit veins, a blessing bestowed upon martial artists by heaven and earth. But young Shen Jin knows that whenever the motes fall, his mother's illness grows worse, and more people in the mining city cough up blood.
To uncover the truth behind his mother's spiritual erosion disease, Shen Jin enters a martial academy and leaves the mining city. From the battlefields of the northern frontier to the Imperial Capital's Starwatch Academy, from the greatest sect under heaven to the underground city of the old era, he climbs step by step to the pinnacle of a high-martial world.
Only when he finally touches the truth of the world does he discover that so-called spiritual energy is not a gift from heaven, but the lingering glow of an ancient war.
The scarcity of spiritual energy does not mean the end of the age of cultivation is coming.
It means this battered world is slowly healing.
When every powerful figure wants to rekindle the tide of spiritual energy and restore the golden age of martial arts, Shen Jin must choose: preserve a high-martial era sustained by calamity, or end it with his own hands and return the world to ordinary life.
