Weighing the Heavens, Starting as a Salt Warehouse Bookkeeper

When Shen Yan wakes up, he finds himself the most unremarkable apprentice bookkeeper in a border salt town in the cultivation world. Here, countless paths stand side by side: some cultivate qi through breathing exercises, some temper their bodies, some nurture their swords to understand the heart, and others use contract seals to borrow the laws of Heaven and Earth. With no illustrious bloodline, Shen Yan can only begin with a salt warehouse ledger whose figures are strangely off, and fight for his own path to immortality through observation, planning, and careful choices. Meanwhile, an ancient powerhouse with fragmentary memories also resides in his sea of consciousness. The figure guides him, helps him identify ancient techniques, but always conceals their true origins. Shen Yan enters the Dao through contract seals and, through one choice after another, creates the “Way of Balanced Contracts.” The guiding girl Qi Ya also grows along her own path, sometimes traveling with him, sometimes parting ways. From a frontier salt town to the myriad sects and worlds, when Shen Yan finally stands upon a much grander stage, he discovers...