Peril at the City Gates

[Innovative Modern-Era High Martial Arts + Superpowers + One Female Lead + Ensemble Cast + Tons of Twists]

Six months ago, a meteor fell near Lincheng. Xiao Mang figured the Chinese Academy of Sciences could worry about it. The most he expected was that it might show up on a physics exam, with his teacher asking him to calculate its orbit.

Six months later, a Taoist inexplicably scams him out of dinner and someone implants a particle in his body. It isn’t a drug or a System. It makes Xiao Mang lose control several times, nearly driving him to kill his own family!

So much for supernatural powers being a gift from heaven. They’re a deadly curse branded into flesh and blood!

Only after meeting others with particles living inside them does Xiao Mang finally uncover the truth: six months ago, it wasn’t a meteor that fell on Lincheng. It was a god! Shards of the deity’s remains drifted down across the city, becoming countless divine particles that lodged in human bodies.

But this is no divine blessing! The fallen god has used its own remnants to set a cruel game in motion, baiting the humans who gained power with divine dust and driving them to hunt one another. The kind neighbors he has known for years and the strangers passing him on the street could all be demigod hunters lying in wait, ready to kill a god. The entire city of Lincheng has long since become a battlefield where the war is invisible.

And so begins a contest between gods and mortals.