The Secret Manual of Reaching the Heavens: In Search of a Thousand

Sha Yun receives a letter from long ago, telling him that he is the fifth generation descendant of the Sha family and that his ancestors left him an ancient book called the Heaven-Connecting Manual. Following the letter's instructions, Sha Yun travels to a mountain range, where he finds a knife in a well. Carved on it are words about a skull-shaped kapala bowl. As they search for the kapala bowl, the righteous general Sheng Bo, the advancing general Sha Yun, the counterattacking general Ruo Lan, the escaping general, the wind general Ying Mo, the fire general Xun Zheng, the eliminating general Mu Zhe, and the rumor-spreading general Ying Yao expose Wang Jiangli's misdeeds from twenty years ago. At the final kapala bowl ritual, they decipher the ultimate art of the Heaven-Connecting Manual.