Remaining Life Goes Against Fate

In the eastern region of the Cangxuan Realm, spiritual veins are monopolized by the domain lord Mo Yuan. The low-level monks survive by paying "spiritual taxes". Every hundred years, the "Spiritual Silence Catastrophe" is even more catastrophic - Mo Yuan will drain the monks' "natural spiritual energy" to continue their lives.​ Shen Yan is the orphan of the Shen family, and his family was exterminated for revealing the truth about Lingji. He hid in the Lingku area with his relic "Reverse Compass" and pretended to be a drunkard. This compass can reverse cause and effect, but it can only be used three times a day, and consumes one year of life each time. The backlash can be fatal.​ The period of spiritual death is advanced and Mo Yuan's minions are wreaking havoc. In order to protect those around him, Shen Yan is forced to use a compass to make arrangements. He formed an alliance with Su Qingyao, the saint who was "spirit-controlling" by Mo Yuan. One of them sought revenge, and the other sought to escape from being a puppet. He also made a deal with the mysterious intelligence dealer Lao Gui, stealing the domain master's "Secret Records of Earth Veins" in exchange for clues to the poisonous herbs and secret earth veins.​ As the longevity is gradually drying up, Zhao Hu and other spiritual tax officials are chasing him, the strong wind of Broken Dragon Cliff, the trap in the forbidden area, and the undercurrent of Tianji Tower follow one after another. Shen Yan knows very well that the compass is like a chessboard, and every calculation is a game of fate. What he is looking for is not only the nodes of the earth's veins, but also a way for all monks to break free from the shackles of their class.​ When the saint draws her sword, the secrets of her allies are revealed, and Mo Yuan's millennium conspiracy is revealed, Shen Yan must gamble on the future of the Cangxuan Realm with one last counter-calculation before his life span is exhausted - perish together, or let his spiritual veins return to all living beings?​