The Inkless Man in Blue

The Divine Mystics sought to destroy China’s spiritual heritage, while the Ghost Tribes sought to destroy the Chinese spirit. The Daoist Hidden Sects upheld the blue heavens with their hands and stood as a barrier with their bodies, calmly embracing the righteous path. In the unseen depths of the mortal world, amid the currents of change that had churned for a thousand years, they wrote countless legends. In ancient times, Yu the Foolish moved mountains and Nüwa mended the heavens. Why did these things happen? After the Investiture of the Gods, supernatural powers and spirits vanished. During the Spring and Autumn period, Laozi and the Zhou dynasty’s classics mysteriously disappeared. In the Three Kingdoms period, the Five Minerals Powder spread throughout court and country. During the Two Jin dynasties, the arts of Qimen Dunjia were made public. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the trend of feminizing men grew rampant, and an inexplicable admiration for foreign ways took hold. Who was stirring up these currents behind it all? Cui Hao, the foremost strategist of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, stood at the heart of the whirlpool. How would he shape the tides? Faced with a Central Plains that could not be unified, countless passionate men and women carried on the legacy of the Qin and Han, preserving China’s spiritual heritage. They filled ravines with their bodies and paved roads with their bones, composing a tragic song of a troubled age.