Li Ping'an transmigrates into the Great Qian dynasty as the lowest-ranking, ninth-grade copy clerk in the Demon Suppression Bureau.
This is a fantastical historical world where immortal sects run rampant and treat mortals like weeds. The sects drain the imperial court of its destiny, high officials sacrifice a hundred thousand commoners to forge magical treasures, and every report submitted to the court blames the disasters on natural causes.
After discovering that the Xuantian Sect deliberately destroyed the dikes and caused the floods in Jiangnan, Li Ping'an is targeted for assassination by the immortal sects!
At the brink of life and death, the Chronicle of Chinese History awakens with a thunderous roar!
Using Old Wang's blood as ink, he writes the Song of Righteousness on a white wall, enabling a mortal to slay a cultivator of a much higher level!
At the Shuiyun Poetry Gathering, facing pressure from the powerful clans, he splashes ink to write Bamboo and Stone, summoning a vision of golden bamboo stretching ten thousand feet high that shatters the immortal sect's magical artifact!
In the Golden Chime Hall, he answers the emperor's questions and writes On the Governance of Dragons and the Suppression of Immortals. The old emperor immediately names him the top scholar in the special imperial examination!
When the blood-soaked killing array erupts in an alley off Vermilion Bird Street, Li Ping'an rides in wearing a red robe, holds up the evidence of the water-repelling formation's scheming, and raises his golden top-scholar's list. He stirs the Great Qian dynasty's thousand-foot dragon aura of imperial destiny, then slays an immortal in the street!
"The officials of the entire court willingly serve the immortal sects, while the immortals, high above, treat a hundred thousand commoners like sacrificial dogs."
"Then I, Li Ping'an, will wield five thousand years of Chinese civilization as my sword and spear, and carve out a path to survival for mortals in this despairing world, where they can suppress the immortals!"