I Guard the Mortal World for Ten Thousand Years

Between heaven and earth, there was originally a "Heavenly Rift". It was not a wall, but a cognitive barrier—preventing the mortal world and the otherworld from seeing each other. The lineage of ancient boundary guardians maintained it from generation to generation, using immortality as punishment, enduring the successive changes of the mortal world. Until modern times, no one guarded it anymore. The Heavenly Rift began to thin. The "Eerie Mist" from the otherworld seeped into the mortal world through the thinnest abyssal openings—it was not mist, but liquid rules. Wherever it fell in a city, that city was rewritten: causality could be tampered with, memories could be overwritten, and living people were rewritten into half-human, half-rule "Eeries". Shen Yanzhi was the last boundary guardian before the end of the dharma era to voluntarily enter slumber. When he awoke, the mortal world had changed for ten thousand years. He does not boast, does not make wishes, and does not draw his sword. He does only one thing—understand the rules, and then unravel them. With the Seven Laws upon him, immortality as his debt. What he guards is not a city or a land, but the lamp that people in this world still willingly keep for themselves. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: I Guard the Mortal World for Ten Thousand Years — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠