Have you ever wondered:
If all the gods and Buddhas in the heavens died, what would become of their obsessions?
Three thousand years after the Calamity of Journey to the West, spiritual energy has run dry and the Heavenly Dao has perished. The gods and Buddhas who depend on spiritual energy die one after another, but their obsessions are too powerful to be erased by death. Their resentment, regret, and fury at the end of their lives condense into one bizarre domain after another, each governed by rules.
Every instance is the corpse of a god or Buddha. Every rule is the final sentence they spoke before they died.
Those who enter these instances are called “Observers.”
Lin Mo is in the final stage of cancer, with only thirty-seven days left to live. The System selects him to enter his first instance, [Thirsty Water Village]. There, he encounters:
· A woman who drank half a bowl of eerie water, then poured the other half back into the well
· A veteran trapped for five days, ready to use a newcomer as a sacrifice
· A dry well that overflows every seventh day
· And a River God who has spent a thousand years asking, “What can I still do?”
Everyone is waiting for the seventh day.
Everyone is waiting for someone willing to die.
Lin Mo looks at the well and suddenly smiles.
“I'll do it.”
That day, rain fell on Thirsty Water Village.
The first rain in three thousand years since the Primordial Era.
“Even mortals can collect a debt owed by the gods.”
