Lu Chen was born with damaged spiritual meridians, and his family judged him to have no hope of reaching Foundation Establishment. For nineteen years, he worked as a menial laborer in the medicinal fields. Then a bloodstained jade slip emerged from the earth, and something called the "Crisis Mission System" forcibly branded itself into his sea of consciousness. A cold countdown rang out at the same time: escape Qingyang City within three hours, or explode and die. There was no way back and no explanation, only a succession of deadly missions and punishments where failure meant death. From a field laborer to a fugitive fighting for his life, Lu Chen carefully navigated pursuit and schemes, only to discover that every mission pointed to the bloody truth the sect had concealed for a thousand years.
