Mythical dungeons from around the world have arrived, and all of humanity's modern weapons have stopped working.
While the Awakened of other countries are still throwing away their lives to brute-force the rules, Ye Zhiqiu, a cultural relic restorer from Longguo, quietly opens The Exploitation of the Works of Nature.
Qiongqi? Pinned through with a single crossbow bolt.
Norse sea monsters? He'll build an unsinkable fleet from Zheng He's treasure-ship blueprints and give them a fight.
Global mental contamination? Ever heard of the “five-tone healing” of the Marquis Yi of Zeng's chime bells?
The whole world thinks Longguo is hiding advanced technology from the future.
Until they see that the people standing behind Ye Zhiqiu aren't gods, but ordinary Chinese people: police officers who lure monsters with their sirens and willingly face death; old sailors who walk into the cockpit after a swig of erguotou and never come out; and ancient-text researchers who devote their lives to preserving a final testament.
This is a war. Our weapons are the wisdom our ancestors left on bamboo slips. Our backing is billions of ordinary people just like you and me, afraid to die but still daring to press forward.
Open this book, and you'll hear it: the first echo of human courage amid the ruins of the gods.
