- World view: Taking ancient Chang'an as the background, it integrates machine magic, Gu magic, Taoism and future technology to build a tragic world where "machine magic is a curse". Tianji Pavilion, Zhulong Organization, Mohist and other forces have launched a thousand-year game around the "Tianshou Mirror", trying to control time and eternal life.
- Core contradiction: The cost of mechanism technology (such as in vivo experiments, consciousness imprisonment) is intertwined with the paradox of time (collapse of the law of cause and effect, turbulence of time and space). The protagonist Xie Wujiu is chosen by fate to be the "Tianshou Mirror Container" and must make a choice between salvation and destruction.
"Tianji Pavilion's Strange Stories" tells the story of Xie Wujiu, a successor of the machine arts, who gradually uncovers the time and space conspiracy behind the Tianshou Mirror in the process of searching for the truth about his mother, and finally ends the thousand-year tragedy by sacrificing himself. It explores the cruel game of machine arts, immortality and destiny.
Intent: Organism is the arrogance of human beings trying to tamper with their destiny, and true eternity exists in the awakening to death.