Treading the Mystic Path

Fresh graduate Gu Yan Mu Chan, unemployed and unwilling to settle, finds himself at a dead end. One late night, he casually draws an ancient soldier standing at a cliff's edge on his design software—a flash of white light, and he's sucked into his own drawing. Cold wind cuts his face, war drums thunder, and rubble rolls into the abyss beneath his feet; he becomes that soldier with no retreat. In desperation, his mind races, and a thought he never expected escapes his lips. The tide turns, and he returns alive. On his computer, the drawing gains a line of small text: 'Survive by facing death.' From then on, he realizes he can use his comics to slice into any moment of history—not to change it, but to experience those eerie instants when civilization nearly snapped. As his travels deepen, he discovers a hidden hand behind those 'coincidences.' Every narrow escape of civilization, every perilous turn of national fate, points to one unsolved mystery: Who, exactly, is twisting the clockwork of history? And the answer lies hidden in every drawing. Treading the mystic path, he draws closer to the truth—and to the ultimate secret of human civilization. This time, one ordinary young man's will to survive will tip the scales of the entire cosmos. — Description from novelcodex.org