The first science-fiction novel in the true sense to engage with higher-dimensional laws. Only the most brilliant minds can understand it. In 2035, when the “Eye of the Abyss,” which judges civilizations, opens deep beneath the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, humanity faces the ultimate test at the level of divine beings and physical laws. Li Xuan, an astrophysicist and fringe scholar well versed in the Book of Changes, deciphers a signal from deep space: Earth’s civilization has become the testing ground where two ancient “prisoners of the rules” compete for a “completion credential.”
The “Negation Phase Disturbance” descends. The laws of physics fail, and chains of logic collapse. From the causal violence of the “Mark of Biting Through” to the rewriting of rules in the “Ruins of Adornment,” humanity teeters on the brink of being formatted under the crushing power of two gods. Alongside the surviving Kunlun Base, Li Xuan discovers that humanity’s only way out lies in its “flaws”: emotions, ethics, and bonds that cannot be quantified, irrational yet radiant. This comes amid the twin extremes of bodily mutation and cognitive contamination.
When the “Not Yet Fording” judgment arrives, heralding the ultimate collapse of the universe’s prison, the survivors abandon resistance. They choose to burn away their last remnants of consciousness and show the cold firmament that even in absolute nothingness, humanity can still love, protect, and hope.
This is a final defense that begins on Earth and ends at the origin of the universe. When the faint light of humanity pierces the iron curtain of rules, the two ancient prisoners learn to “communicate” for the first time. And the lofty recorder writes the final verdict for this tiny civilization: accepted. Because the most fragile are often the most indestructible.
