In the first painting, a head on a dinner plate smiles. In the second, a charred corpse clasps its hands together... There are six paintings in all.
The police match the deaths depicted in the paintings to real murder cases, only to discover that every clue points to the same asylum.
To the same person.
Cen Yi is, in the eyes of others, a delusional patient through and through, spending his days behaving and speaking absurdly, completely out of place in the world around him.
But to the police, apart from claiming to be a cultivator, this young man is actually logical, sunny, cheerful, and perfectly normal...
As the investigation deepens, inexplicable details, an undisplayed seventh painting, and the truth behind the murders gradually come to light.
They thought they were simply bringing a murder case to a close.
Until, deep beneath the sanatorium, a pitch-black coffin opened.
Ink-black darkness swallowed their vision. Everyone disappeared, along with the sanatorium, and in the darkness someone heard a wavering voice, like a sigh, whisper, "At last."
When they opened their eyes again...
Smog veiled the stars. The city blazed with light at night, aircraft darted through a jungle of steel, and garish billboards dazzled the eye.
Beneath all the wealth and glitter lay the damp, dark lower city, where crowds of people were like specks of mud.
Cen Yi looked at the mechanical tail swaying behind him, the body blasted into a bloody mess, and the person staring at him in utter shock. He clicked his tongue and said:
"Welcome to the world of the mad."
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The place where you've awakened has not only extraordinary technology, but also a path to immortality that modern people call "delusion."
The starting point of this path floats among the clouds. The world calls it:
Golden Island.
Here, whatever you seek, you shall find. The key to eternal life, the authority of a god, untold wealth, rewards powerful enough to rewrite your life...
Everything is within reach.
Reading Guide:
1. There is a romantic pairing, and they are not just background characters.
2. If the plot seems to take an odd turn, it may be foreshadowing.
3. The first volume is a mystery; from the second volume onward, it's cyberpunk cultivation.
3. The original blurb was screenshotted on 2024.2.14 and later revised.
Theme: Repeated slander can destroy a person.
