Twenty-six years ago, an ominous phenomenon disrupted the political landscape of Beiliang. One remark from the Imperial Preceptor sparked a farce that lasted more than thirty years, while the sitting emperor's greed for power indirectly led to the later state of Beiliang: its people reduced to destitution and its fields strewn with corpses. With rulers failing to rule and ministers failing to serve, demons and monsters took advantage of the chaos to run rampant.
Those in power were incompetent, officials were lawless, and people had long since crossed every line just to survive.
A genius boy, driven from place to place by a fateful encounter, was forced to save the world for the sake of someone he had met. Just as he thought he could take control of his own life, a shocking secret gradually came to light.
