The Great Qian Dynasty has stood for more than three hundred years, but by the time it reaches the hands of the current emperor, it is already teetering on the brink of collapse.
Savage demons batter the northern snowfields' passes, several southern provinces declare independence, powerful court officials form factions for their own gain, cultivator churches secretly infiltrate the imperial court, and demons and monsters run rampant across the Central Plains…
For ordinary people, simply staying alive is harder than reaching the heavens.
Lu Zhao transmigrates into this world, but before he can even take it all in, a mad old man nicknamed the “Ghost-Faced Physician” uses him for human experiments, poisoning him so severely that death would be a mercy.
Fortunately, heaven leaves no one without a way out. The golden finger known as the Book of a Hundred Trades opens its first page in his sea of consciousness.
Starting as the lowest-ranking medicinal-cuisine servant in the marquis's residence, he endures abuse and scolding by day and secretly cultivates by night. Physician, apothecary, poison master, martial artist, formation master, talisman master, sorcerer, scholar, artifact refiner, beast tamer, Martial Saint, Dao Lord…
With help from the marquis's wives and concubines, the top courtesan Cai Wei, the widow of a demon-suppression hero, a church's secret envoy, a Northern Di saintess, a demon emperor, a new ruler of the dynasty, and a giant of the heretical path, he grows stronger step by step!
Time passes. When he finally looks back, he is already standing at the pinnacle of the myriad paths.
