Lu Qingya knelt in the ancestral hall beneath the blood moon, scales spreading wildly across his left arm.
He had just used his family’s ancestral bronze mirror to devour his biological father’s corpse. This should have been the fate passed down through generations of the Lu family’s Gatekeepers, until the night the Nine Heavens collapsed and the "Faceless Devourer" chewed both mechanical civilization and immortal dynasties into stardust.
"Visible realm: Qi Refining, Third Layer. Hidden contamination level: 15%..."
The bloodstained bronze mirror issued a cold warning.
With the weakest Five-Element Spiritual Root in the cultivation world, Lu Qingya wielded this ancient artifact, which could devour anything but corrode the soul. Hunted by both righteous and demonic factions, he embarked on a forbidden path:
■ Forging counterfeit top-grade spirit stones in the black market with Cthulhu tentacles
■ Engraving AI algorithms into mechanical sword bones in the Sword Mound
■ Refining a quantum black hole into his life-bound artifact before the Guixu
When he discovered that the mirror’s artifact spirit was the very first Gatekeeper, when the mechanical Sword Immortal crawled out of its code tomb to challenge the heartless Heavenly Dao, and when the demon saintess cut out half her heart to seal away the contamination
Lu Qingya crushed the ninth civilization’s gravestone and laughed madly in a new world of flesh and gears intertwined:
"Cultivation is about freedom. If this Heavenly Dao would enslave all things..."
"Then I’ll wield Cthulhu as my blade, take cyborgs as my bones, and rewrite the Nine Heavens!"
