Li Banfeng, whose name means 'mountain peak,' is not crazy, despite what the doctors say. To save a friend's life, he boards the 1160 steam train at platform 96, arriving in the steam-powered Pro State. There, he encounters beautiful women from old gramophones,月份牌, and old clocks, as well as worldly experts from wine gourds. Here, there are food cultivators who grow stronger with each meal, smokers who become stronger with each puff, fierce martial cultivators, and drunken cultivators who grow wilder with each drink. There are those who love to travel and those who prefer to stay home. With countless schools of cultivation, who will come out on top? Banfeng, in a suit and hat, armed with a feather duster, asks: Who is the Lord of Pro?