I Grow Stronger with Every Breath, Yet I'm the World's Public Enemy

In the lowest layer of the Tower of Inverted Laws, in the Dust and Mud District, Lin Chen is widely regarded as a good-for-nothing. Amid acidic, foul-smelling blood rain that leaves a metallic taste with every breath, his clan kinsman Lin Hu pins him in the mud, while livestream comments flood the screen with "loser" and "what a disgrace."

As he teeters on the brink of death, a cold mechanical voice rings out in his mind: [Hard Work Pays Off System activated! Taking a beating... "Iron Body" proficiency +1!]

From then on, breathing, throwing punches, taking hits... everything becomes a path to strength! When the firmament splits open and the world-ending divine eye, the "Eye of Annihilation," looks down upon all living beings, the whole city flees in panic beneath its divine might. Only Lin Chen charges against the tide, punching like mad on camera! The comments explode: "Holy crap, what a cheater! The gods are ending the world and he's grinding his step count?!" [Punch count reached! "Star-Shattering Fist: Remnant Form" unlocked!]

He thinks that with the "King of Grinding System," he can eventually challenge the gods with a mortal body. But another cold voice inside him mercilessly reveals: [Countdown to the backlash of the rules... begins now!] Every increase in strength deepens the world's rejection of him!

More deadly still, the "divine contamination" hidden within the aloof goddess Su Muxue erupts amid the apocalyptic crisis, and she flies toward the divine eye! To fight the backlash, Lin Chen is forced to activate the mysterious "Warhammer" and fall into a gear-filled void made of divine remains and broken laws...

In this graveyard of gods, Lin Chen discovers the shocking secret behind the System's origins, while the backlash countdown hangs over him like a sword. He must grind harder and faster than ever! Because he grows stronger with every breath, he has become the world's public enemy! Either he is erased by the backlash, or... he grinds the gods of the heavens to death and rewrites the rules!