Fleeting

In a world doomed to destruction, living itself is a kind of resistance. The story takes place in the microscopic world called "Yanghuanjie", which is actually the inside of the human left eye. Immortal cultivators extract spiritual energy (moisture from the eyeballs) in order to seek immortality, but this accelerates the dryness and pain of the host's eyeballs, eventually causing the world-destroying natural disaster of "blinking". The protagonist Gu Tong has a special "fish pupil" physique. From a regular cultivator, he gradually uncovers the truth of the world: the so-called ascension is death, the so-called heaven is the brain's instructions, and the master he respects, "Ancestor Ku Rong", is actually an ancient virus consciousness that attempts to control the way of heaven and turn the world into a permanent petri dish. Gu Tong faced a cruel choice: although collecting all the source crystals could temporarily nourish the world, it would accelerate the destructive purge. Between the deep love between master and disciple and the survival of all living beings, he personally killed the master who was eroded by the virus in an attempt to stop the torrent of world destruction. However, in the face of the instinctive physiological reaction of the host in the macroscopic world, all the resistance of the microscopic civilization seems so powerless. In the end, in a tired blink of the host, Gu Tong turned into lubricant, sacrificing herself in exchange for the fire of the next era. When the light returns and a new civilization sprouts again in the moist eyeballs, the tragedy of history is destined to repeat itself in the fleeting reincarnation.