Protagonist's name: Lu Chen, also known as Guishan. In his previous life, he was the youngest leading scholar in the Chinese archaeological community. He was obsessed with ancient documents such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". He traveled to the realm of mountains and seas because of an accidental contact with a mysterious bronze compass. In this life, he was born into a declining family of monster hunters. His parents disappeared during a beast wave, leaving him with only a incomplete ancestral biography, "Stories of Mountains and Seas".
In terms of personality, Chase Lu has both the rigor of a scholar and the determination of a hunter. He has a kind of "examination-loving" calmness in his bones. When faced with any strange beast, secret realm, or formation, his first reaction is to analyze its shape, habits, and origins, rather than act recklessly. This trait allows him to always find the most cunning way to break a situation in a life-and-death situation, but it also makes him seem a bit alienated and calculating. However, as his bond with the creatures of the mountains and seas deepened, the obsession of "protecting civilization" deep in his heart gradually awakened, and he transformed from the original "survivor" into a chess player who "rebuilt the order of the mountains and seas."
The growth arc is divided into three stages: in the early stage, he was an "alien" who used modern logic to deconstruct the strange arts of mountains and seas, relying on his knowledge difference to crush low-level monsters and indigenous monks, full of curiosity and adventure; in the middle stage, he was involved in the "Heaven Splitting" catastrophe in the mountains and seas for some reason, and discovered that the strange beasts recorded in "Stories of Mountains and Seas" were not fiction, but the fall of ancient gods and demons. After his resentment was transformed, he began to take on the responsibility of "purification" and "complementation", turning from a lone ranger into a leader; later on, he faced the truth that the "mountain and sea realm" itself was a huge seal, and faced the ultimate choice of "repairing the seal and maintaining reincarnation" or "breaking the seal and ushering in an unknown new era", completing his final transformation.
