The rifts are collapsing, the Tainted Tide is closing in on the city, mutations are rampant, and the seals of the old world are crumbling.
Once-bustling cities have become the front lines of disaster. Taint spreads everywhere, hidden cities are fracturing, secret plots multiply, and darkness flourishes amid the chaos.
Shen Jiyue is a solitary wanderer who roams the ruins. Cursed since childhood to draw in the bizarre taint, he awakens the ancestral heirloom known as the Peace Knot in his darkest hour.
It sees through delusions and shatters illusions, purifies all taint, and suppresses rifts to seal the fractured sky.
Each advancement of the relic unlocks an astonishing power, letting him shatter the shackles of darkness, one step at a time.
When the Tainted Tide runs rampant in the south of the city and a tainted leader appears, the city's defenses teeter on the verge of collapse, and no one knows what to do.
He faces the battlefield alone, breaks the killing formation, slays the leader, and seals the rift, turning the tide of an entire district's desperate struggle with his own strength.
Traitors in the hidden city plot in secret, prying open the Nine Ancient Rifts in an attempt to unleash calamities from beyond the domain.
His old foe, Shadow Eater, lurks in the darkness, hunting from the shadows and plotting at every turn.
The various factions clash and scheme as the tainted tide spreads ever farther, and the crisis grows more dire by the day.
With the ancient knot as his blade, he seals the rifts across the city.
With no one but himself to rely on, he bears the countless calamities of a chaotic age.
Even with the abyss looming overhead and tainted calamity engulfing the city, he will walk through the rifts, purge the taint, suppress evil, and uncover every secret in the world.
The rifts are endless, but I am their master and guardian.
Chaos is coming, and I will be humanity's bulwark.
