The Deed of All Arts

Three thousand years ago, the ancestors sealed the ancient ferocious beast Silent Abyss with the contract of all arts. Jiyuan is not a dragon, but it is more terrifying than any dragon - it feeds on forgetfulness, uses loss as flesh and blood, and uses indifference as air. When a craft is forgotten, it grows an extra joint; when a craftsman loses his skill, it wakes up a little more consciousness; when the last traditional utensil is replaced by the assembly line and the last ancient tune is not sung, the memoryless tide will completely emerge: wherever the black mist passes, people will forget how to write, how to make fire, how to sing, how to love each other, and the world will return to chaos. According to the secret records of Wensu College: a hundred years ago, there were more than 10,000 traditional skills across the country; by the time Shen Yan entered school, there were only 1,557 national-level skills and about 7,000 provincial-level skills available for examination—and they continued to shrink at an average rate of more than a hundred items disappearing every year. There have been 371 cracks in the seal above Wuji Abyss. According to this calculation, Ji Abyss will completely wake up within ten years. What's even more frightening is that the top ten artists under Ji Yuan are waking up one after another. Every time a person wakes up, the corresponding art field will disappear rapidly in the world - when the kiln master revives, all traditional wood kilns in Jingdezhen are shut down; when the shadow master is born, the shadow puppet theater troupes across the country drop by 70%; when the weaver master comes to the world, the unique skill of Su embroidery splitting silk is on the verge of being lost...