The Six Arts Suppress the Heavens

Name: The Six Arts Suppress the Heavens
Author: The Little Dolphin's Story

六艺镇天

by The Little Dolphin's Story (小海豚的故事)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 116k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Traditional Eastern Fantasy
Updated: 21h ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

When Su Wenyuan, the newly named top candidate of the Dasheng dynasty's imperial exam, awoke, a blade was already at his throat.

"Number thirteen, answer to your name."

One reply would cost him his soul. He bit back the "Here" that almost escaped his lips, used ritual propriety to protect his real name, seized a crossbow and shattered the sacrificial lamp, then joined the twelve other prisoners in fighting their way to safety under the cover of an old war chariot.

The sacrificial lamp was out, but the soul-snatching master bell kept ringing. For the escapees to truly get away, he had to identify the real bell with his companions and capture Yan Duo, the one holding it.

In the world of the Nine Mysteries, ritual, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics can all become supernatural arts. Yet four chapters of the Six Arts Compendium in his mind had gone dark, leaving him unable to use all the arts together.

Ritual could guard the soul, calligraphy could free prisoners, and archery could strike directly at the weak point of a spell. Against forged characters that stole names, fake paintings that trapped people, and evil rites that borrowed lives, he would have to relearn the Six Arts one by one, spot the flaws, and put his skills to use when life was on the line.

He wanted to find a way home. The young woman traveling with him wanted to see her mother again, the man driving the chariot wanted to clear the name of an old friend, and the scholar with a writing brush was still searching for his missing mentor.

On this journey, he would complete the Six Arts and break through the great calamity of the literary tradition. He would also stay alive to the very end alongside the companions with whom he had shared half a bun.

Stats

29Chapters

66Reads · 30 days

66Reads · all time

11Listens

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