The apocalypse arrives, and mutated beasts besiege the city. Jiang Chen is reborn and awakens the Bone Tempering Armor Forging System, devouring mutated beasts to forge ancient battle armor. His bitter rival, Zheng Wei, returns with the Star Relic Mecha Core, using interstellar technology to build steel behemoths. Battle armor and mechas, ancient methods and technology: two utterly different paths of evolution. When the truth behind the Canglan Rift is revealed, they discover that this apocalypse is nothing more than an experiment conducted by a higher civilization. And the only way to survive is to join forces, or devour each other?