A cursed savior will ultimately become the truth that tears space and time apart.
Lin Yi, a young blacksmith from the frontier, triggers a bronze compass left behind by his mother on the night a Riftbeast from the Demon Realm lays waste to his city. This lost Mohist artifact, the Myriad Pivot, pulls him into a vast conspiracy spanning the Three Realms: the Ghost Realm’s quantum Yellow Springs are devouring the cycle of life and death; the Demon Realm’s flesh-and-blood war machines have infiltrated the highest levels of government; and the steam civilization of the human world, once its greatest source of pride, is merely a failed prototype from the Heavenly Craft Project twenty years ago.
When Lin Yi discovers that his blood can activate ancient machinery, his comrades begin paying a terrible price:
Demon warrior Zhao Tie is scorched by the bloodline of the Flame Emperor, becoming a half-human, half-machine monster.
Sorcerer Shen Mo uploads his brain to the quantum cloud, becoming a ghost who wanders the real world.
Mage Xue Yao lets the divinity of the Nine Heavens Goddess devour her humanity in order to freeze the collapse of spacetime.
At the gear graveyard of the Heavenly Craft Pavilion, Lin Yi must choose:
Let the Myriad Pivot reboot the world, erasing the chaotic age where steampunk and cultivation civilizations intertwine;
Or become the human vessel for Pangu’s heart, enduring for eternity the agony of machinery and flesh merging.
In this world of Daoist arts and interlocking gears:
The propellers of Penglai’s immortal ships turn the vengeful spirits of the demons from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
The steam pipes of Fengdu City carry the River of Forgetfulness code, formulated by the AI Meng Po.
And every beat of your heart could become experimental data observed by a higher civilization.
When mechanical Buddhas begin chanting sutras and quantum ghosts travel through steam pipes
This is both the most romantic steampunk epic and the most brutal Eastern cyberpunk apocalypse.
