As rusted iron and beast blood drench the sky, the civilization of old collapses beneath the surging tide of awakened intelligence.
Lin Mo struggles to survive in the scrapyard at the bottom of a steel fortress. A damaged gene serum is his wager with death. After narrowly escaping death again and again, he discovers two dormant talents within him, each capable of tearing fate apart: the “Immortal Battle Physique” grants him terrifying regenerative powers, rebuilding his flesh and blood, while “Resonance with All Things” lets him hear the dying world’s mournful cries on a spiritual level.
Beyond the walls lies a hellscape of beastfolk evolution: claws rip through armor, supernatural abilities shatter gun turrets, and a rule that lets them evolve rapidly by devouring humans paints the earth crimson. Within the walls, in a fortress ruled by rigid hierarchies, Lieutenant Kane’s cold gaze follows him like a shadow, while the schemes of the human elite are deadlier than beast claws.
To protect his gravely wounded brother and break free of the gene serum’s hidden curse, Lin Mo tempers his rusted bones in blood and fire. From foot soldier to rising general, from body refinement to soul mastery, his rust-blooded blade will one day cleave through the beast tide. Yet the wreckage of a starship beyond a breach in the walls whispers an even more terrifying truth: the catastrophe sweeping Earth is only the opening act of a cosmic hunting ground...
