Liu Li Ashes, Quicksand Calamity

[Darkness + Conspiracies + Comeback + Slow Burn + Mythology + Fantasy + Journey to the West + Xuanhuan + Alternate Universe + Wild Imagination + Passion + Classical Aesthetics + Psychological Thriller + Science Fiction] A crystal lamp shatters in Lingxiao Hall, and Sha Heng, the Curtain-Raising General, is cast into the purgatory of the Flowing Sands River. For a thousand years, flying swords pierce his heart, and he survives by eating people, all because he stumbled upon the secret of Heaven's Court forging weapons from countless souls. The only thing that sustains him is the faint light of Jing Shu's words, “Follow what your heart desires,” when they first met at the Jade Pool. But he does not know that this tenderness is the “living sacrifice” demanded by the highest contract in the Three Realms. Beneath the Flowing Sands River, an ancient core of desire is about to hatch. A game spanning the heavens is underway, with Buddhism and Daoism locked in a surging struggle. The nine skulls of the pilgrims are the key; Jing Shu's sacrifice is a move written in fate. He is both the most crucial offering on the board and its only variable. From the quantum abyss to the wasteland of the mortal world, Sha Seng, carrying a broken umbrella, embarks on a defiant journey to gather the skulls and shatter the contract. In a world riddled with lies and plunder, he will burn away falsehood with karmic fire and illuminate the darkness with his resolve. Only when the glassy illusions have shattered will this calamity of shifting sands, sweeping across the Three Realms, mark the beginning of his journey to ferry others and himself to safety, with his heart as his boat. “This time, what my heart desires is to overturn the fate that smothers all living things.” [Tags] #ScreenAdaptation #JourneyToTheWestSpinOff #SciFiWildImagination #ThreeRealmsPowerStruggles #TorridLove #DefyingFate #HighOctaneFiction #EasternFantasy