This is the Qianlong Continent.
A world where humans, demons, immortals, Buddhas, Confucians, martial artists, and Daoists coexist.
The various races are constantly at war, and with natural and man-made disasters on top of that, the land is strewn with bones and cries of misery fill every region. Life is unbearably bleak.
Yet all pursuits are inferior; only scholarship stands supreme!
Gu Changsheng, born into a poor family, summons a miraculous manifestation of the Confucian Dao and step by step embarks on the path to becoming a Sage above all others!
