[Ensemble Cast, Power Struggles, Not a Power Fantasy]
A penniless storyteller at the Yihong Courtyard, with a sharp tongue and sticky fingers, has only a five-year-old zombie child by his side.
He has no idea that his disheveled master, who spends every day visiting brothels on credit, was once Zhang Kuisheng, Great Qian's foremost Martial Saint, commander of the Demon Suppression Bureau, and Duke Who Guards the Nation.
The thousand-year-old peach tree on the dilapidated Peach Mountain protects the surrounding lands, and keeps a world-shaking karmic secret under guard.
Zhang Qian came from beyond the heavens, carrying a dormant System. All he wanted was to enjoy moonlit nights beneath the flowers, show off a little, and woo some women.
Then his master died.
The court collapsed.
The demon clans rebelled.
Frost City fell.
The world descended into chaos, lives were lost in droves, and the three great empires teetered on the brink of collapse.
The boy who once told stories at the Yihong Courtyard came down from the mountain with his zombie son and a few hopeless disciples.
“I have a volume of Daoist arts that can subdue mountains and rivers.”
From a street storyteller to the leader of a Daoist sect, from the human court to the demon clan's Qingqiu, from a run-down temple to the sects of the world...
He followed a road no one had ever taken, accepted disciples no one else dared to take, and forged a bond that crossed the boundaries of three races.
When the Demon Emperor's finger pierced the firmament, when the demon clan's claws tore apart the alliance, when the old aristocrats fought for power amid the chaos...
He stood atop the walls of Frost City, with the vast mortal world behind him and an endless tide of demons before him.
“Back when I told stories, I told other people's tales.”
“Today, I want the people of the world to hear the story of me, Zhang Qian.”
This is the story of a little nobody who protects the land.
This is the story of a storyteller who becomes the leader of a Daoist sect.
This is a story about the Dao.
