His name is Lu Shi, the Shi meaning "to pick up time."
He has only eight days of life left.
In the apocalypse, that makes him as good as dead.
Everyone risks their lives in the Great Wilderness using fragments of the Great Wilderness Map, but the strange beasts marked on it have no names, no weaknesses, and no conquest guides.
Lu Shi takes one look at the map, and complete descriptions automatically appear in his mind.
For everyone else, entering the Great Wilderness with the map is like a blind man trying to feel an elephant. For him, it's an open-book exam.
Others pile up corpses to kill strange beasts. He relies on the Bestiary.
Every beast he records adds a little more time to his lifespan.
Eight days isn't enough.
What he wants is to record every beast and live forever.
"Want to know which mountain has the fattest beasts? Pay me half your fortune!"
"You've lived for thousands of years and think you can harvest me? Have you checked whether I've got enough time to beat you to death?"
While survivors struggle to eke out an existence in the wasteland, Lu Shi leads his army of strange beasts, sealing one ferocious creature after another from the Great Wilderness into the Bestiary.
He goes from a mayfly struggling on the brink of death to the Lord of Time, blessed with eternal life!
Lu Shi says calmly, "Even Time itself would have to kneel before me!"
A cultivation story about a bookworm rebuilding the apocalypse with the Great Wilderness Scripture.
