Chronicles of Cangxuan: The Book of Proof

On the Cangxuan Continent, countless races stood side by side.

Humans, beastfolk, the Plant Spirit Kingdoms, and the Spirit Glamours and Rock Armors had each founded their own nations. For thousands of years, they had fought without end over one thing: the Book of Proof.

Legend said the book recorded the true names of every race. As long as a name remained, its bearer would never cease to exist. If a name vanished, the world itself would forget. After the book’s pages were torn apart, the nations’ wars only grew fiercer. Each battle fed a terrifying, unseen presence.

Lin Zhao, the least remarkable beast-taming apprentice in Linyuan City, had yet to awaken his spirit at sixteen. By chance, he obtained half a page torn from the Book of Proof and became inseparable from Xiaoyan, an exotic beast of unknown origins. When the city fell, he was forced to flee. Along the way, he met Nie Yun, a mutated youth hunted by the Featherfolk; Qing Luo, a plant girl who carried the secrets of the Ancestral Court; and Jiang Yumian, a mysterious storyteller.

Gradually, they discovered that an invisible hand seemed to be guiding the wars between the nations. Beneath the smoke of battle in the northern frontier lay a forgotten ancient Son of Heaven, and an army without form, formed from the resentment of dead kings and emperors.

The Lord Beyond the Realm, “Wuxiang,” was returning from the rift between existence and nonexistence. He would devour the names of every race in Cangxuan until only he remained in the world.

With war itself serving as the enemy’s nourishment, Lin Zhao had to make a choice: keep fleeing, or embark on a path of proof that would make every nation hunt him down.

“You’re still alive, and your people still remember you. But what about us? What about our country?”

“I can prove they exist. But can you prove that I exist?”

All races bear witness, and Cangxuan is the proof. One man, one spear, one page from a shattered book, seeking to win a world on the verge of being forgotten the right to remain unerased.