The ley lines of Shenzhou are withering, and disasters and evil spirits run rampant in the human world.
The tradition of esoteric arts has been in decline for a thousand years. Everyone says that practitioners are nothing but charlatans who roam the streets, deceiving people for a living.
The young Shen Yan, wearing straw sandals worn through at the soles and carrying a bundle of old, yellowed pages, walks into a mountain village shrouded in dusk.
Most of the writing on the fragment, passed down through generations of the Shen family, has been worn away. Only one mottled, somber character remains: "Suppress."
Human greed digs into mountains and severs ley lines to nurture yin spirits. Heretical sects drain marrow and strip away souls to steal the secrets of Heaven.
From the land-measuring coins of a ruined village temple to the intricate schemes surrounding Qingling, a county seat;
From a poor wanderer who reads qi and studies residences to a dragon-quelling master whose power can engulf the world.
On this journey, he neither worships the gods nor seeks immortality.
The broken mountains and rivers of the Nine Provinces, and the scattered traditions of the Dao, await his hand to fill them in, stroke by stroke.
