[Tags: Urban Martial Arts | Eastern Fantasy | Spiritual Qi Revival | Classic of Mountains and Seas | Sacrificial Cultivation | Chosen by the Gods | Light Mystery]
Ten years into the spiritual qi revival, the land of Huaxia is dotted with ruins where gods have fallen. People flock to them in a frenzy, plundering the power known as “divine relics” and believing it to be a gift of the new age.
They don’t know these are merely abandoned graves, left unattended for thousands of years after the ancient gods died.
Chen Zhixing, a descendant of Emperor Shun, accidentally awakens an ancient sacrificial altar during an archaeological dig in the territory of ancient Chu. The altar was used by his ancestor to worship Donghuang Taiyi. His bloodline resonates with it, and he inherits the long-lost Taichi: Record of Heavenly Sacrifices. In an age when everyone is “scavenging,” he is the only one doing something worthwhile: burning incense for the dead gods.
He cultivates through sacrifice, honing himself and devoting his offerings solely to the gods, hoping to reclaim a trace of their former glory from beings long dead.
Then, by a stroke of luck, he offers a sacrifice of Yinglong’s broken bone fragment.
And learns a shocking secret.
Yinglong’s remnant soul, carrying an intention buried beneath the Yellow Springs for countless eons, follows the karmic thread of the sacrifice and pierces straight into the depths of his soul:
“It is all decay…”
“The divine body has rotted, the godhead shattered.”
“New gods or ancient gods, they had all perished before the first breath of spiritual qi revived.”
In that instant, Chen Zhixing understood.
The spiritual qi revival of the past ten years was no return of the gods. It was… weeds on a grave, growing wildly on the nourishment of the dead.
