Rules: ten days, ten deaths, ten tombstones.
The price: willingly face death, or have your bones eroded into bricks.
The truth: the dead do not pass on. They ultimately become fuel for the gods.
On the brink of despair, Lin Yuan signs a mysterious contract to save his ailing mother and falls into the City of Wrongful Death, a city of bones shrouded in blood mist. Ten tombstones stand within its walls, each leading to a deadly cycle governed by bizarre rules. Within ten days, he must willingly die once before each tombstone. If he dies, his flesh and blood are remade, and he gains a strange “karma shadow.” If he misses the deadline, his bones will be eroded into bricks, forever imprisoned here.
Each death is a test of the rules’ limits, and an attempt to overturn them. The way to break free is hidden in the most complete destruction of all. When the karma shadows gather on the tenth day, the city of blood mist collapses and the Ruins of Return emerge. The will that devours souls finally bares its fangs.
With ten fading traces of karma shadows in hand, Lin Yuan stands amid the ruins of the end. Forged through ten deaths, his will raises the blade of desperate defiance against the soul-devouring god.
Only the rebellion of those who willingly face death is truly lethal poison.
