In the Rift Continent where spiritual energy is exhausted and people live by swallowing light, "light" is both salvation and sin.
Mortals pay a "light tax" to survive, while monks rely on hunting "heart lamps" to survive.
——Only Ding Ran, a low-level handyman who was calm, paranoid, photophobic but in love with light, accidentally obtained the ancient "sun lantern" during a blood sacrifice on a rainy night, and ignited his own soul-reflecting fire.
When he discovered that the path to advancement meant devouring hope and erasing loved ones, but he still insisted on finding the opposite path of "living without taking away light", the whole world began to collapse:
• The "Light Pickers" of the Blood Candle Sect wield swords and hunt lanterns, and order is forged with blood and performance;
• The fragments of ghost stars fall to the ground, the evil miasma spreads, and day and night are confused;
• "Eclipse King" Si Mo built his throne with billions of heart lamps, vowing to completely destroy the light.
Ding Ran, with broken lamps, broken songs and a group of people abandoned by the world, struggled in the gap between eight hundred lives and deaths.
He can sacrifice his memory, wipe out his name, and even extinguish his inner light, but he refuses to extinguish his belief in "living for others".
When the lights are extinguished and the night remains,
He used his "lightless body" to counter-ignite the stardust and let the world learn to breed glimmers of light in darkness again.
——However, on the day when thousands of lanterns are lit again, all living beings have forgotten the story of the "nameless wick".
Dark Cultivation × Survival in the Apocalypse × First Person Monologue
An epic spanning six volumes and 800 chapters, it takes you into the night that swallows both light and heart, using the last spark to illuminate humanity and hope in the ruins.
