In the age of declining magic, he enters the Dao through an original copy of the Dao De Jing that no one can understand. He crushes every fake Daoist in the city at the same cultivation level, only to discover that the depletion of spiritual energy is the price the sages paid to seal it away with their own bodies.
The academic world dismisses him as a crackpot, while the great clans see him as a thief of their secrets. He smashes through every challenge, only to reach the end of the Five Seals and see the fading image of a sage ask one question: What year is it?
