As gray mist devours the city and blood-red candlestick charts become sinister shadows that shred souls, seven cities turn into hunting grounds of desire and betrayal. Ruan Jingtian, descendant of the Sealers, grips the Dagger of Fear stained with his mother's blood. As blindness and the countdown to the world's destruction close in, he enters a maze of truth torn apart by fragments of the Boundary Mark. An emotion controller lies dormant in a mechanical prosthetic limb; a sacrificial curse surges through the bloodline of the Sea Maidens; the shadow of a traitor flickers in a spatial rift. Beneath the conspiracy woven by the Heart-Eater Society, every step forward awakens the sleeping heart of the World-Destroying Venerable. When the altar of desire in the financial district lights up, and the ashes of the Night Watchers' shrine reveal the secrets of the First Generation, they must use a traitor's blood to reverse the fated end of the world before the Boundary Mark shatters completely. This is a deadly race between the uncanny and reality, and a brutal parable exposing the line between "justice" and "evil": at the edge of the apocalypse, with gray mist engulfing the city, the Boundary Mark you protect may be the very source devouring the world.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
