In the mysterious city made of bronze, time is an endless torture.
Every twenty-four hours, the City of Infinity will collapse, and the flesh and blood of all the dead and the remains of the buildings will be sucked into the ruins, and then reshaped as before when the first drop of water drips from the copper pot. Thirty-six "sinners" were trapped here, and were forced to participate in the twelve-hour life and death situation set by the four sacred beasts - Yinshi drove the bronze Southern Chariot with reversed magnetic poles through the rift valley, and Chenshi avoided light in the sundial maze projected by the white tiger's pupils. Shadow strangulation, the five elements of incense ashes are mixed at noon to balance the incense burner that is about to explode... Every time a level is passed, the body of the survivor will be branded with the three talents of "Heaven, Earth and Man", while the soul of the loser will forever be cast as the base of a bronze statue of a mythical beast.
When Lu Yi, the former national Go player, woke up from a pool of blood, he found that he could glimpse the broken afterimage of the future. Accompanying him are Su Jiuli, a doctor who uses flesh and blood to promote medicinal herbs, and Xuanji, a tomb robber who knows the earth's veins but is burdened with a curse. The three gradually discovered that the fragments of the "Ganshi Star Sutra" engraved on the bronze vessels and the hexagrams of the "Book of Changes" floating in the ashes of incense and seal scripts all pointed to a conspiracy that had lasted for thousands of years - the four elephants and beasts had long been polluted by the "return to ruins", and the so-called escape passage was just a harvesting ground for existences in higher dimensions.
When Lu Yi touched the Green Dragon Jade in a thunderstorm for the ninth time, he finally saw clearly the truth outside the bloody sky: the ripples of the electrocardiograph resonated with the dripping sound of the copper kettle, and a bronze compass hung high outside the ward window. This city that swallowed countless dead souls was nothing more than a causal cage left behind by ancient civilization. The real punishment is to let the awakened person carry his memory with him in the eternal reincarnation and forge hope into despair with his own hands.
