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My name is Chen Mo, and I live in a perfect cage called "An Ning Town". Here we work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Everyone is a familiar neighbor with the same smile. At first I thought this was a blessing, until I found a yellowed photo deep in the drawer - in the photo, I was lying in a cold tiled room, with red writing scrawled like blood on the back: "Don't eat Uncle Wang's noodles, it's a shroud." From then on, the peaceful life began to peel off its paint. Uncle Wang, who sells breakfast, repeats the same sentence every day with empty eyes; his neighbor, Grandma Li, peels beans as accurately as if measured with a ruler. I tried to escape, but the wheel always brought me back to the old locust tree at the entrance of the town; I tried to warn others, but before I could say anything, the other person turned around stiffly like a puppet with its strings cut off. This is not life, this is acting. All of us are playing the role of "living people". That rainy night, I sneaked into the noodle shop warehouse and saw the truth - the piles of "noodles" were white shrouds soaked in soup, and the distorted faces of the missing were crowded in the gaps. They are not dead, just "sealed". Now, "she" who plays the role of my girlfriend is standing at the door holding a bowl of hot noodles, with the corners of her mouth raised in a perfect arc. "Ah Mo," she said softly, "the noodles won't taste good if they're cold." The heat rising from the bowl blurred my vision. If you eat it, you can continue to have this gentle dream; if you overturn it, you have to face the "audience" who controls everything behind the scenes. I clenched my chopsticks.

This is a story about struggle, growth and choice. In the "Cang Yuan Realm", spiritual energy and evil energy coexist in the heaven and earth. When all living beings practice, they must incorporate purifying spiritual power and corrosive "ember energy" at the same time, and maintain a delicate balance in the body; once the balance is out of balance, they will "ember" and become irrational monsters. The "Burning Heaven Tribulation" thousands of years ago destroyed ancient civilization. Humanity established a new order on the ruins, relying on a technology called "Spiritual Pivot" to guide and control the embers in the body. Those who can control the "Lingshu Seal" are called "Lingshu Masters" and have a lofty status; while those who cannot control the Ember Qi are reduced to "Embersers" that everyone shouts about. The protagonist of the story is a boy/girl with an ordinary background. In an accident, he obtained a fragment of the ancient "Lingshu Seal". This fragment not only gives him/her unique abilities, but also involves him/her in a huge conspiracy - the secret of the "Abyss" in the center of the continent, and the mystery of his/her own life experience. In this world where spiritual masters and embers are at odds, the protagonist will embark on the road to find and repair the spiritual master seal, explore the true meaning of power in the gap between good and evil, and make his own choices.