Xingyuanxu

Greystone Star, a garbage dump on the edge of the Empire. Gu Yuan, a nineteen-year-old scavenger, lived by three principles in the scrap metal pile: don't stand out, don't trust others, and don't die. His special talent is the ability to "hear" the deep energy remaining in the waste - this is called craftsmanship on Graystone Star, and is called a life reminder elsewhere. A piece of black ore with a heartbeat changes everything. It activated the sleeping Yuan patterns in Gu Yuan's body, awakened the poisonous tongue of the three-thousand-year-old AI "Lao Yuan", and hatched a small liquid metal beast called Mo Tuan. The price is: being targeted by the Guixu Society, being wanted by the empire, and being regarded as a heretic by the Immortal Cultivation Sect. Gu Yuan doesn't want to be a hero, he just wants to live. But living requires companions - the genius girl Shen Ye who was abandoned by the sect, the military industrialist Tie Ya who was hunted by the empire, the special soldier Lei Heng who was crushed by fate, and the down-and-out nobleman Xiao Rang who had no plans left. A group of people abandoned by the world got together to find a third way. Guixu will tell them: the Yuan energy is declining, the universe is dying, and only half of the people can be saved by sacrificing the other half. The empire told them: Order is above all else, and individuals are just the fuel of civilization. The Immortal Cultivation Sect told them: Technology is a heretic, and pure blood is the only way out. Gu Yuan didn't believe in any path. His answer was written in the ruins of the Guixu civilization, on the ascension platform of the Immortal Cultivation Civilization, and in the sea of ​​stars on the edge of entropy— "Meaning is not given by the universe, it is created by ourselves."