Seventeen-year-old Shen Yan had always felt that something was wrong with the world.
During an accident, he discovered that a falling stone had stopped in midair for an instant.
After awakening his primal energy, he began experiencing more and more of these strange sensations.
Splashes, sounds, collapsing walls... the order in which some things happened seemed not to follow common sense.
At the same time, savage beasts invaded the city, ruins that had lain dormant for years reappeared, and a past forgotten by history gradually surfaced.
At first, Shen Yan only wanted to uncover the secret of a single stone.
Later, he wanted to know what had happened one hundred thousand years ago.
Later still, he journeyed toward the stars.
When he finally saw the truth of the world, he realized that what he had been pursuing was never merely time.
All things have order, and the world has causes.
But what, exactly, was the beginning of all existence?
