Thirty-seven years into the cataclysm, the sky split open with endless rifts to other worlds. Savage beasts poured through and devoured the land. The surviving humans huddled in isolated cities, cultivating martial arts with energy cores and struggling to stay alive. Lu Yan, a poor boy who grew up in Qingwu City's slums, was often bullied by local thugs because of his frail health. When he was ambushed one day, he unexpectedly awakened a god-tier prediction ability linked to an apocalypse-survival System. It could perfect any martial art or beast ability, predict where beast tides would erupt and rifts would expand, and let him cultivate at astonishing speed.
During a mission to gather energy cores, Lu Yan was ambushed by the Blackrock Society and accidentally rescued Shen Zhiyu, the last survivor of the Shen family, who was being hunted. She carried the coordinates of an ancient rift energy source left behind by her family. Using his predictive ability, Lu Yan escaped repeated assassination attempts by the Blackrock Society. The two gradually joined forces and exposed a shocking conspiracy: the Blackrock Society had colluded with high-ranking officials in the city lord's administration to sell resources to foreign powers.
Enraged, the Blackrock Society deliberately triggered a massive beast tide to attack Qingwu City, setting a countdown of seven days until the city fell. As a nobody, Lu Yan had neither the resources nor the authority to mobilize troops. He also had to contend with traitors sabotaging the city from within. If he failed, the tens of thousands of survivors in Qingwu City would become beast fodder, and Shen Zhiyu would fall into enemy hands. Through fire and blood, Lu Yan swept aside one powerful enemy after another, growing from a poor boy fighting to survive into the guardian who commanded the entire city. While others fought for power and reveled in luxury, all he cared about was protecting Qingwu City and the people by his side. Even if he had to give up all his power in the end, he would defend this haven of peace amid the chaos of the apocalypse. In this life, he would protect just one person.
