Is the power of the Heavenly Abyss a blessing or a curse?
At sixteen, Lin Yan fell from being the greatest genius in the Eastern Wilderness to a good-for-nothing. But on the brink of death, he swallowed a remnant of the Heavenly Abyss Core. From then on, a ghostly blue crystal beat in his chest, his flesh became a breeding ground for Soul-Eater Vines, and he became the most crucial piece in the Soul Hall's century-long game.
The Soul Hall wants him dead: nine bronze coffins hang over Soul Burial Valley, each containing a puppet with his face.
The great clans want him driven mad: the filthy history of the five clans' ancestors devouring gods resurfaces as the Nine Coffin Altar is reactivated.
Even his younger sister Lin Xue, whom he risked his life to protect, has a symbiotic curse between her brows that grows ever more sinister, becoming the key to unleashing divine punishment.
“The godslayer ultimately becomes a new god.”
When the Outer God “Entropy” tears through the seal and descends upon the Forbidden Domain of Eternal Night, Lin Yan finally sees the truth: the so-called Heavenly Abyss is merely a prison where the gods have confined themselves, and the so-called Soul Hall is nothing but a pack of ants reveling among divine remains.
He offers his flesh and blood as a sacrifice, gouging out his icy heart to feed the Soul-Eater Vine as he breaks through all nine coffins in a state of madness.
He wields causality as a blade, forcing the Lord of the Starry Pavilion to reverse time and space, where he glimpses the remorseful tears of the first ancestors within the cycle of reincarnation.
He turns compassion into poison, allowing the Outer God to corrupt his soul and making the struggle between divinity and humanity the final wager.
By then, the defiant youth has become a monster, half consumed by chaos, with blood tears streaming from his single eye.
“If godslaying is a sin, then I shall become the last sinner in the Myriad Worlds…”
