In 2024, a ghostly blue panel appeared before 800,000 people around the world at the same time.
Seventy-two hours later, nearly 100,000 vanished from reality, bodies and all, their souls cast into the Cangxuan Continent.
When police detective Zhou Heng opened his eyes again, he had become Lu Zhao, a courier who had just been murdered. The wound in his chest was still bleeding, and his killer was right behind him. Yet the panel gave him two deadlines:
[First Return: 60 days]
[Tide of the Abyss: 30 years]
One hundred days in Cangxuan passed for every day in reality. All those who entered would return together, and Cangxuan would freeze during their return. Their cultivation would come back with them to reality.
Zhou Heng thought all he had to do was survive for sixty days.
That was, until a Cangxuan native who had never met him called out the name “Zhou Heng” across a burning building.
Someone had prepared a list before their arrival, and arranged a second death for every person who tried to escape.
Later, in reality, Zhou Heng met Gu Ning, a toxicology chief examiner whose striking beauty was impossible to forget, though her manner was cold. When he entered Cangxuan again, he encountered a masked woman whose eyes, figure, and measured way of doing things reminded him of her.
In reality, they grew closer and closer. In Cangxuan, they faced danger side by side behind two different faces, neither recognizing the other.
When nearly 100,000 missing people returned around the world in the same second, bringing back both their cultivation and countless corpses, everyone finally understood:
They hadn't returned from another world.
They had brought that other world back with them.
