Era of Burning Lanterns: Watchers of the Rusty Realm

The world is rusting. Flesh and blood turned to copper, civilization was annihilated. This is the 307th year of the Rust Era. In Qinglong Village, the rust spots on the palms of young blacksmith Pu Chen suddenly burned like a lamp. He was told that this was the last fragment of the heart furnace of the ancient "Sacrificial Vessel", which was both fire and a curse. Power uses life as lamp oil, and protection requires paying the price of rusty bones. When his sister was critically ill, evil gangs were suppressing the situation, and the village was about to collapse, he chose to kneel on one knee, using blood as a guide to forge the tiny wishes of hundreds of villagers into the earth - "From today on, this place is called Qinglang." "Whoever comes to grab a grain of grain again will hurt someone." "I will forge his bones into the ground to make fertilizer!" This is a story about a man who used his mortal body to light a life lamp, forged copper as a boundary, and became a guardian of civilization in an era of despair.