In this era of urban martial advancement, everyone must pass source-frequency certification and obtain a city license before becoming a registered martial artist or pulse worker.
Lin Jin is taking the certification for the third time, but is classified as having "no source frequency."
The examiner forces a retest.
The next second, source frequencies across the entire venue reverse, and the genius source channels surge backward. Only four red characters remain on the display:
[Not on This List]
Everyone calls him an anomalous source and says he must be taken away for observation.
Then a breakdown in the district's rhythm erupts. Registered martial artists suppress it according to standard procedure. The first eight attempts work; the ninth rebounds.
The harder they suppress it, the stronger the catastrophe becomes.
Lin Jin removes his broken noise-canceling earmuffs and hears the single offbeat beneath the city.
"The monster isn't getting stronger."
"You're the ones who woke it."
Before the ninth beat falls, he steps into the heart of the catastrophe and halts the collapse of the entire street.
The Yellow Bell pitch pipe awakens, revealing a record from twenty years ago:
The aurora in broad daylight was no natural disaster.
Mount Buzhou is no myth.
Its severed half lies on the far side of the moon.
Those are the four unfinished characters in the ancient texts:
Buzhou on the Far Side of the Moon.
And Lin Jin is the person who was sent out through the fracture in Mount Buzhou twenty years ago.
