Zhongli's Path of Contracts

The Path of Zhongli's Contract is an epic blending reincarnation, destiny, and interstellar fantasy. In a world cursed by the Nine Hells Blood Pact, Zhongli bears the mark of the Demon Lord and holds the Mystic Jade Chessboard in his hands as he cuts through three thousand years of tangled karma. When he breaks the seal on a bronze coffin, he sees not only mountains of corpses from the war between gods and demons, but also the blood-red contract binding him to Sushang across a thousand lifetimes.

Sushang, the last dreamweaver of the Secret Pavilion, used half her heart to forge the Nine Hells Blood Pact and drag Zhongli into a deadly cycle of god-slaying reincarnation. In every life, she carves out her heart and gives it to him, only for him to meet his destined end with his soul scattered. When the Mystic Jade Chessboard awakens fragments of time and space, the bronze tree in the God-Burying Abyss blooms once more. What crawls from the fissures in the hundred thousand Star Ruins: the resentment of the first Star Gods, or the karma Zhongli himself severed?

From the blood sacrifice at the Sea of Rebirth to the burning of the Star Marrow Throne, Zhongli tears through dimensions amid quantum collapse and awakens the power of the Chaos Star God. The truth buried deep by Sushang gradually comes to light: the astonishing game she laid out using her soul as bait was meant to fight back against an eater from a higher dimension. As stardust forms the epitaph of the dead and the Star-Skeleton Tyrant descends from beyond the Abyssal Gate, this struggle of love and hate spanning time and space will finally reveal the truth: is the godslayer a harbinger of the world's destruction, or the flame of salvation?