Seventeen-year-old Chen Xing is a scavenger, living at the very bottom of Cyber City, where the Huanyu Group holds absolute power. The garbage hills reek day and night like some colossal beast sprawled on the ground, and the acid rain never truly lets up. Every day, he rummages through piles of discarded parts for anything he can trade for a bite to eat, just trying to stay alive.
While searching one day, an unremarkable, mysterious energy core sliced his palm. The instant his blood seeped into its patterns, a long-dormant power was forcibly awakened.
From that day on, Chen Xing's right eye changed completely.
It could see through metal shells, detect the faintest flows of spiritual energy in the air, and even sense danger before it arrived. His wounds healed at an abnormally fast rate, flesh knitting back together in moments. But this sudden “gift” brought him no good fortune. Instead, it thrust him into the hunting grounds.
The Huanyu Group had long been secretly capturing “spiritual-root awakeners,” extracting their genes and refining them into exorbitantly priced drugs to make a killing among the upper classes. The moment Chen Xing's anomaly was exposed, he was designated the highest threat level. After fighting his way out of the deadly trap at the testing center, he had no choice but to flee nonstop through the narrow alleys of the slums, abandoned subway tunnels, and hidden underground clinics, never daring to let his guard down.
As he fled, he gradually figured out what he really was.
What he possessed was no ordinary spiritual root, but an evolvable spiritual root unseen for nearly a century. Its gene sequence could rearrange itself in real time to adapt to its environment, and its abilities could grow without a fixed limit.
