I Exhausted Every Calculation, Then Knocked on the Door with My Blade!

In the winter of the thirty-seventh year of the Jingtai era of the Great Zhou, Fang Hui, a low-ranking clerk inspecting the gates of Shazhou City, wants nothing more than to earn his two taels of monthly pay in peace and scrape by in these troubled times. A border general rebels. The city is sealed off, and spies are silenced. To stay alive, Fang Hui can only grip the saber in his hand, along with the bloodstained sandalwood abacus bead that awakened the Great Divination Heavenly Disc in his sea of consciousness. Cultivators seek immortality through spiritual roots, the Dao heart, divine powers, and secret arts. Fang Hui draws his saber and calculates blind spots and paths to survival. As long as he has enough spirit stones, the Heavenly Disc can calculate every path to survival. In the Great Zhou dynasty, where cultivators reign supreme, a penny-pinching foot soldier and a fallen noblewoman with a talent for the abacus take on this merciless Heavenly Dao in their own way. “Great masters, you’ve got your numbers wrong.”