In 2024, a mysterious game known as the Myriad Worlds Trial descends upon the globe.
Each country is randomly assigned a trial tower, and each tower corresponds to a separate world instance. One "Chosen One" from each country is selected at random and summoned into its tower, wagering their life to win national-fortune points for their country. These points determine the distribution of national resources, the concentration of spirit energy, and even the rise and fall of a nation's fortune.
Huaxia is assigned the highest-difficulty S-rank instance: the Abyssal Demon Realm. Yet the Chosen One randomly summoned by Huaxia is just an ordinary university student named Lin Zhao.
No connections. No resources. No backing. Everyone is waiting for Huaxia to become a laughingstock.
But what they don't know is this:
Sleeping within Lin Zhao is the bloodline of Huaxia's guardian spirits, who have protected it for five thousand years.
As darkness descends from the demonic abyss, as Chosen Ones from other countries join forces to hunt him down, and as cameras across the world focus on this seemingly ordinary young man...
He stands above a bottomless chasm, with the phantom forms of the Dragon, Tiger, Phoenix, and Tortoise appearing behind him.
"You ask what Huaxia has to rely on?"
"Five thousand years of civilization that has never been broken. Every inch of these mountains and rivers has a guardian spirit sleeping within it."
"And now, they're awake."
This is a story of civilization, legacy, sacrifice, and awakening. It begins with one man's fight and leads to the awakening of an entire people. From a trial in one tower to the resurgence of spirit energy across the whole Earth.
When the apocalypse arrives and demonic tides surge, every person on Huaxia's soil will become a guardian spirit.
