Night Watchman of the Ruins

As a member of the Abyssborn, regarded as ill-omened, Zhang Ye salvages the world's wreckage at the edge of the Sinking Sea. During a mission deep in the Stilled Ruins, he not only retrieves the strange silver key his employer sought, but also unwittingly drags out the body of a "Sleeper" that cannot be detected or destroyed. This body, silent in death since time immemorial, becomes a resonator that lets him sense the ruins and a stable anchor for warping their laws. But it also brings the Rusthook Gang's pursuit and the creeping tide of conceptual corruption. As forbidden whispers echo in his dreams and broken coordinates point toward the truth of the War of Edicts, Zhang Ye discovers that what he is salvaging is more than an echo of the ruins: it is a forbidden core, powerful enough to overturn the cosmos of myriad laws, and it is awakening. Can the Night Watcher's flame shine on the eve of collapse?