Chen Jin knelt in the ruins and closed his mentor's eyes. Hunger, exile, betrayal - these memories are like knives, carving the first spiritual mark in the soul. In 2847 AD, in the interstellar era after the civilizational rift, humans excavated fragments of the ancient civilization that cultivated immortality from the cracks in the Ruins Sea, and named them "Xu Qi". Every artifact contains a magical circuit and a psychic matrix. By activating it, you can gain power beyond mortals. The price is: every time it is used, the spiritual marks deep in the soul will deepen by one point. When the stack of spiritual traces reaches a critical point, it will trigger a "Tao Collapse" - the body will disintegrate, and the consciousness will fall into the abyss of pain like eternal reincarnation. Death will never come back, but the pain will accumulate to the next clone. Chen Jin was the humblest scavenger in the ruins, until he picked up a broken ancient mirror. Xu Ling·Jing whispered in his ear: Do you want power? Use your memory instead. He sacrificed the hungry night in exchange for the ability to contract summons. He sacrificed his mentor's face in exchange for his first territory. When the enemy lord set up a deadlock and forced him to choose between "sacrifice himself to save his companions" or "save himself but the territory changes hands", Shen Jin smiled. "You think I can't find my way back because I forgot that face?" He opened his palms, and shocking spiritual traces appeared on them. "The pain will accumulate, but so will the killing intent." Yin Wujiu, Tie Li, Su Qinian, Bai Yelan - people abandoned by the world one after another,
