Gray mist spreads from the far north, blanketing the land and turning thirty percent of the world's landmass into a dead zone.
Conventional weapons are useless. Martial arts rise again, and martial arts schools spring up everywhere.
Yang Song is the least noticeable odd-job worker at Yiyang Martial Arts School.
His left hand is crippled, his martial meridians are unopened, and everyone at the school can walk all over him. The only person who's kind to him is Yuan Xiaoqing, the master's daughter.
But he doesn't even have the courage to look her in the eye.
He has three days to scrape together 50,000 yuan.
Otherwise, he'll be expelled, his grandfather will be left with a broken leg, and he'll lose everything.
Then one day, he leaves the martial arts school and steps into the Graylands...