Bright Flame in the Long Night

In Jiangling City, ruled by neon lights and algorithms, delivery rider Lin Jin carries two worlds on the back seat of his electric scooter. In the surface world, he is squeezed for every second by the platform’s System and struggles to make a living. In the hidden world, a leak in an underground cavern forces him to swallow the blood essence of a demon beast, awakening the Devouring Spirit Flame, which can burn everything to ashes. The flame can devour supernatural abilities and burn away blood essence, helping him smash his way to the peak of martial arts. But it also scorches his humanity: with every step he grows stronger, his emotions grow colder. When the conglomerate Huanyu Group uses AI to predict flaws in cultivation methods and creates fake grandmasters to siphon the lives of ordinary people; when sects and clans monopolize the resources of secret realms, ranking martial artists into rigid social tiers; Lin Jin clenches his flame-wreathed fists. In the icy premonitions of Ye Wuxue, a Night Watcher, he sees two possible paths: become the powerful elite’s blade, or become a wildfire sweeping across the land. He chooses the latter. On a stormy night, he devours the city’s power grid and battles a hundred mechanical martial artists alone. In the Fengdu cavern, he swallows the divided soul of an ancient vicious beast whole. The price of his mental resistance is madness, teetering on the brink of a rampage. In the final battle, Ye Wuxue burns ten years of her life to glimpse 0.1 seconds into the future, shattering a crystal core with an ice needle. Lin Jin swallows the false god’s core and, before his body disintegrates, pours his flame into the planet’s core. At that moment, the Flame Devourer challenges the gates of Heaven with a mortal body. The old era collapses into ashes, and in the dawn of a new world, ordinary martial artists raise spirit-energy firearms and pierce the endless night of bloodline supremacy. “Godslaying is nothing more than burning everything I have to win you your dawn.” The price is his humanity. The goal is the salvation of all.