The Celestial Compendium of a Hundred Arts

On the Continent of a Hundred Arts, people have no spiritual roots. Cultivators comprehend the Dao through their "art veins."

Blacksmithing, brocade weaving, porcelain-making, paper-cutting, medicine, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting... Every traditional craft, brought to its utmost, can reach the divine.

Han Qing, an apprentice at a blacksmith's shop in Qingshi City, was tested at sixteen and found to have "miscellaneous veins of a hundred arts." The whole city mocked him, and his betrothal was broken off.

Everyone thought he was a good-for-nothing.

What they didn't know was that miscellaneous veins of a hundred arts were a "body of all crafts," one in ten thousand.

That night, the Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Arts panel awakened.

It could appraise all things, unlock inheritances, and fuse the hundred arts.

A sword forged through blacksmithing could slay demons; a formation woven into brocade could trap fiends; paper-cut puppets could deceive an enemy's eyes; golden needles could heal or kill.

Starting from a single blacksmith's shop, Han Qing gradually incorporated China's intangible cultural heritage crafts into his cultivation system.

Quenching, a hundred rounds of forging, golden-thread soft armor, swords cast from golden needles...

Three thousand paths of craft, all leading to the heavens.

"The world mocks my mixed veins as useless. I laugh at the world's narrow vision."

When the seal on the calamity that would destroy the arts began to loosen, Han Qing finally realized...

On his shoulders rested the inheritance of the Ancestral Master of the Hundred Arts, and the fate of three thousand crafts.

With this hammer, he would forge a world of his own.