At the twilight of the three-dimensional universe, entropy's flames consume the galaxies. When higher-dimensional devourers treat civilizations as kindling, only those who can rewrite life and death can tear apart the laws of dimensions.
Su Cheng, a boy from Mechanical Spirit City, has mechanical patterns that devour flesh and blood parasitizing his right arm, yet his eyes reflect a miracle that reverses the increase of entropy. The instant he touches the bronze compass, nine dimensions burst open. Cultivators of the Energy Realm wield flying swords to cleave stars; gods and demons of the Law Realm battle eternally in folds of spacetime; and a woman in white from the Guixu Realm is folding an entire galaxy into a two-dimensional painting inside a lantern.
“You are the Entropy Clan's most successful experimental subject.” As the glazed flames of an entropy-corroded star ring burn through reality, Su Cheng comes to understand, amid the struggle between machinery and flesh, that so-called dimensional ascension is merely a platter on the dining table of a higher civilization. He does not intend to escape. He intends to smash the table that has devoured billions of civilizations.
