From Nameless Wasteland to Immortality

Linjiang University. The admission letter spells it out clearly: "Enter the path upon enrollment. Four-year undergraduate program. Graduation requirement: Earth Realm." The day Lin Chen receives his admission letter, he discovers a line of tiny print on the back: "Beneath Tianze, all beings have a name." No one has ever seen these words. They can't be found online or tracked down anywhere. After enrolling, he is assigned an internship with the Office of Celestial Surveillance, monitoring earth veins. His supervising teacher, Gu, is a man of few words. The work is simple: carry instruments around campus, take measurements, record the data, and report it. Soon he realizes that all the monitoring sites form the shape of the Big Dipper. At its very center lies an unlit area. The campus map labels it "Closed to the Public." Every night after falling asleep, he enters a library with no end. Its shelves hold ancient methods, formations, earth-vein maps, and theories of causality. Then one day, deep inside the library, he finds a wall engraved with three characters: Office of Celestial Surveillance. There is a sound beyond the wall. It grows louder when he moves forward and stops when he steps back. There is also a line on the rankings: "Nameless, cumulative name points: uncountable." No one knows who "Nameless" is. The earth veins, the stone tablet, the library, the Office of Celestial Surveillance. Every clue points to the same name. Tianze.