As red rain drenches the urban village, a rift in the cultivation world begins devouring the mortal realm
Lin Yan, an abandoned disciple of Qingyun Temple driven to the brink by rent, digs half of a mysterious jade slip from beneath an old locust tree. The instant he touches it, he glimpses an immortal palace among the clouds, while a sigil appears on his wrist, like a key opening Pandora’s box. An old man at the alley entrance preaches through a game of chess, his pieces turning into stars that shred space and time. The rain-soaked alley walls reveal an ancient cultivation formation, as blood corrodes the boundaries of reality. Talismans that had never worked suddenly unleash world-shattering power, but at the cost of a countdown on his life.
Lin Yan awakens the “Mortal Root” constitution, which lets him refine obsessions into cultivation spirit roots, only to discover that his name was carved on a memorial tablet for the dead thirty years ago. The master of the immortal palace in the clouds has a face identical to his own. When the man appears holding the complete jade slip, a panorama of the urban village rises behind him.
The rules of cultivation are rewriting modern society:
A secret-realm portal is hidden in a convenience store freezer. Top scorers on the college entrance exam compete for special cultivation admissions. Skyrocketing housing prices are driven by a scramble for plots rich in spiritual energy. Lin Yan must reach Foundation Establishment within three months, or the cultivation world’s “Demon Extermination Bureau” will erase him. More deadly still, every cultivation choice he makes affects reality: killing an evil cultivator triggers a string of murders, while absorbing spiritual energy causes earthquakes across the city.
When the red rain falls again, the cultivation countdown begins to flash
The old locust tree bears talking fruit, each one concealing the truth about cultivation that was erased thirty years ago. Su Qing, his antique-shop friend who is always teasing him, now stands aboard a flying boat at the immortal palace in the clouds, holding a bloodstained Immortal-Slaying Sword.
Who rewrote history?
When cultivators become castoffs of their age, can mortals defy the will of Heaven?
