A thousand years after the spiritual qi revival, humanity had developed a cultivation system in which “the body is the boat, and the soul is the rudder.” They discovered that ancient “qi skeletons” lay hidden in their genetic chains: living bones capable of devouring spiritual qi and evolving. Lu Zhao, a bottom-of-the-class student, accidentally awakened the incomplete qi skeleton sealed in his right arm during an aptitude test. This sharp-tongued remnant of an ancient god-slayer could devour formations and nourish its Host in return. When his Underworld-Seeking Eye glimpsed memories of a death from thirty years ago inside the spirit-testing stone at the exam site, an escape that would overturn everything he knew began. There was Ji Yanli, a sword cultivator from the Xuanyuan Sect, cursed with a Taotie stomach pouch that devoured everything; cybernetic puppets in the Tiangong Pavilion that recreated the faces of the dead; and the Shennong Valley’s flesh-and-blood incubators, breeding malformed divine descendants… Every clue pointed to Guixu City, beneath the sea, built from the bones of a giant god.
Beneath an iron sky where cybernetic flying vessels danced alongside sword-riding cultivators, a cross-dimensional war that would determine the survival of entire species was roaring across a quantumized battlefield of bones…
