The Cultivation Realm is nothing more than a breeding ground for a higher-dimensional civilization. Nine Candles of the Common People monitor the civilizational cancer spreading through the Thirty-Six Grotto Heavens. Lu Zhaoran, a border-post courier, awakens the bloodline of a Night Watcher. In his left hand, a bronze lamp devours karma; his right eye, a multidimensional compound eye, peers through dimensional rifts. Bai Zhiheng, a traitor to the Sword Pavilion, wields a forbidden Mohist art. Her strings turn into swords that shatter altered fragments of history. Yet as she fights the cultivation clans, she discovers a bloodstained confession from the first Night Watcher hidden inside a sword seed.
Murong Jiuzhen arrives bearing the bloodline of a Heavenly Demon. The ribs of her red umbrella pierce the folds of spacetime, dragging the Cultivation Realm into an entropy hell. When quantum collapse exposes the spacetime sandbox beneath the Mohist palace, and the Confucian temple’s sacred statues shed their skins to reveal bronze mechanical eyes, cultivators finally realize that so-called ascension is nothing but an abattoir where higher-dimensional observers harvest experimental data.
Following the echoes of quantum remnants, Lu Zhaoran uses his Heart Sword as a key to tear apart the Higgs field prison altered by the Murong clan. Bai Zhiheng freezes the bosonic heart of the entropy wasteland. At last, within the mechanical Buddha’s thousand-armed Riemannian eyes, they glimpse the cold stream of data from three thousand civilizational reboots in the Cultivation Realm. The honking of cars from 2024, coming from beyond the Möbius Gate, serves as a reminder: deep in the desert of the real world, a bronze coffin has begun to seep with a cultivation virus...
