In the foggy streets of the 1890s, Su Hao opens his eyes, escaping the suffocating grip of a noose and stagnant water. The marks on his throat still burn, but his soul has been branded with the "Humanity Seal." Absorbing the mutations of blood prisoners and the blood scripts of curse mages makes him stronger, but the price is that he must earn Humanity Points by "cooking a hot meal" or "saving a stray dog."
All he wanted was to understand the coordinates of this parallel world and find his way back to Earth. But while deciphering an astrologer's star chart and taking apart Shadow Rifts, he glimpses the scars left by the Nine Paths tearing the world apart. He forges a pact with soul-contractors, opposes the time loops of the Chronomancers, and watches his Humanity Points teeter between good and evil.
When the System's whispers reveal the truth behind his transmigration, he clenches a fist stained with blood and starlight. The Earth he cannot return to has become an obsession, but the answer lies at the pinnacle of this strange world.
