The moment the apocalypse countdown burned itself into the retinas of people around the world in blood-red numbers, delivery rider Lu Zhao accepted an order in the pouring rain that would change everything. As a bronze compass turned, the Eye of Time's Ruins awakened within him, letting him glimpse nine inverted copper coffins beyond the depths of space. To save his blind younger sister, kidnapped by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, he is forced to cross the rifts where seventy-two ancient forbidden grounds overlap with the real world. As the Twelve Ancestors of the Mystic Sect awaken one after another from a slumber lasting thousands of years, and the fragmented Hetu and Luoshu diagrams begin to reassemble the threads of causality, Lu Zhao discovers that the so-called apocalyptic calamity is nothing more than a god-slaying game laid out in the river of time by some unknowable being.
