Black rain falls, cities are overrun, and the old order collapses overnight.
During his struggle to survive, ordinary man Lu Chen finds a sinister black book. He also discovers for the first time that the terrifying monsters contain “ash cores” that can set people on the path of cultivation.
No System, no rebirth, and no overnight rise to power.
Every step toward becoming stronger costs resources that must be bought with your life; every breakthrough may take you one step further from being human.
But just when Lu Chen thinks all he needs to do is survive the apocalypse, he discovers that he appears in a photograph from three years ago, and that back then, he personally took part in a “doomsday” that no one remembers.
Seven days later, the Life-Refining Furnace will open.
Sixty thousand survivors will become sacrifices.
And the only person who can shut it down is Lu Chen, who has lost three years of memories.
