The one crawling out of the bronze coffin was no ancestor, but an infant sucking on a starfield.
Ye Qingxuan swallowed a fragment from inside the coffin. His flesh and blood mutated into a monster that devoured the laws of nature, only for him to discover that he was merely a "living coffin" cultivated by a higher-dimensional civilization.
When his sister's spine sprouted a bronze umbilical cord, and the Guide's bone knife was found engraved with lies about reincarnation,
the siblings offered themselves as sacrifices and raised a flame to burn the heavens.
What exactly were they burying: the gods and demons of the myriad heavens, or three thousand years of humanity's tampered genes?