When the System known as “Celestial Pivot of the Myriad Worlds” broadcast to all humanity, Wang Shi, a night-market vendor losing sleep over the cost of medicine for his mother’s kidney failure, became one of the first “Chosen Ones.” He thought this was his chance to change his fate, unaware that the “innate supreme treasure” bound to him, Bai Ling, was a bottomless pit for energy. An accident sent her out of control, draining the power grid of an entire city and triggering a chain of explosions at the western suburbs power plant. Transmission towers toppled like dominoes.
Overnight, Wang Shi went from an ordinary man struggling to survive to an “extinction-level” threat responsible for massive casualties and the destruction of critical national infrastructure. Agents from the Xuanyuan Bureau shadowed him relentlessly, and six sniper rifles had him in their sights outside his childhood home. The System’s merciless death mission had already been issued: within 72 hours, go alone to Kunlun and destroy the core of the Corrupt Abyss’s encroachment.
Before him lay the law, as unforgiving as a furnace; behind him, the System was driving him to his death. In this hopeless situation, all he wanted was to go home and make arrangements for his parents’ final days, but he discovered that every move he made had already been anticipated by the state apparatus. Yet just as the arrows were about to fly, an order from the highest levels froze the killing operation. They had seen the crime of blowing up the power plant, but they had also weighed his potential to become a blade in the nation’s hand.
And so, amid the ruins, a silent bargain was struck. In exchange for the state’s “kindness” in providing his parents with the best possible medical care and securing his future, it took on the burden he could no longer bear. All he left behind was a mountain of gold and silver as a symbol of atonement, and a resolute figure setting off for Kunlun to wash away his sins in blood.
The firmament has cracked, and a hundred thousand soldiers have stained Kunlun with blood. Bearing the mark of a criminal, he will become the final wildcard standing before a nation on the brink of collapse.
