When ancestral spirits awakened across the nation, Shen Yan summoned his mother, who had been dead for six years. No, he summoned his mother as she had been at eighteen.
She looked at the city-protecting deity idol worshipped by the whole city and sneered:
"A corpse opening its eyes, and you call that a divine manifestation?"
Only then did Shen Yan learn that the Era of Ancestral Spirits was not an age of divine protection, but a grave illness caused by a cycle of reincarnation rotting away.
And his mother, summoned as an eighteen-year-old Medicine King, was a Qing Nang forbidden-meridian healer who could needle the gods and prescribe remedies for the Heavenly Dao.
The gods were sick, the ancestors were weeping, and the Heavenly Dao was dying.
He and his eighteen-year-old mother would operate on this world.
