Blood stained the sky, and an evil eye split the heavens. The indescribable "It" from beyond the realm tore through the veil of reality, bringing blasphemous whispers and twisted creations with it. Qin Chuan, an ordinary mortal, was marked by an ancient evil artifact and cast into an endless nightmare. To survive, and to protect Xie Xiaoqi, whose soul was bound by nails and locks, he embarked on a road of no return: refining the scattered fragments of nine ancient divine artifacts.
The Bronze Cauldron of Filth Suppression burned his heart and gnawed at his bones; the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and the State concealed unfathomable secrets... Every resonance with an artifact was a torment of flesh and will. Qin Chuan struggled on the border between man and artifact. His broken body turned to bronze, and his heart became a prison for corruption. He became a walking calamity, and the only hope. Love and hate became a prison, the artifacts his chains. Before the tentacles of "It" could devour everything, he had to gather all nine artifacts and turn himself into a formation. He would seek the artifacts through bloodshed and become the torch himself, kindling the apocalypse's last glimmer of light on the edge of madness and redemption.
