The instant a gun was pressed to delivery rider Chen Mo's forehead on a stormy night, he unexpectedly awakened the ability known as the "Time Domain." He could make the world stand still and control anything without a life of its own. As bullets spun at his fingertips and suspended raindrops formed a defensive ring of water, this young man from the bottom of society, who could barely afford rent, was swept into a thousand-year feud between the hidden sects and the Godslayers' Society. As a global blood moon descended, ancient gods prepared to reincarnate and rise again through the "Altar of Time." And sealed within Chen Mo's blood was the remnant soul of the mightiest Ancestral Shaman: Zhu Jiuyin.
He is a "mobile altar" hunted by his enemies, and a "time catcher" who can turn the tide of battle. He uses ten seconds of stopped time to rob a casino vault, steals an opponent's moves in an underground fight ring and kills him in an instant, and exploits a time gap at an auction to snatch life-saving pills. Chen Mo rises rapidly in the city's shadows through his "time cheats," only to discover that Grandma Li, who raised him, has an Ancestral Shaman totem carved into her neck; that the seemingly frail saintess Su Li has made a symbiotic pact with him; and that even his most trusted hacker teammate is a pawn of the Godslayers' Society's leader.
The story unfolds in interlocking twists: from an awakened one's comeback at three in the morning to forming a Godslayer squad and delving into the altar; from the truth of memories inside the gods' cage to the across-the-ages redemption of time's prisoners; and finally, to the cruel truth behind the "108 reincarnation cycles" revealed in the final chapter of time. When Chen Mo stands at the end of the temporal torrent, he is both a prisoner trapped in a loop and the one who holds a pocket watch capable of restarting the rules and breaking the deadlock. That suspended bullet from the stormy night had already fired the first shot in this war between gods and humankind, a conflict spanning a thousand years.
