The Apocalypse Across the Heavens

**The surface: a wasteland like *Ling Cage*** Mana collapses, and the old technological civilization crumbles. The surface is a belly of Mana ecology and mutated beasts, while humanity huddles in lighthouses, shelters, and floating cities. Technology hasn’t completely died out: orbital capsules, fusion cores, gene locks, mechanical prosthetics, and energy matrices still remain. The old government is gone. Conglomerates and cults carve up the territory, and the surface is known as the Strange Zone. **The laws: bizarre cultivation** The calamity wasn’t a natural disaster. Strange laws broke in, the old Heavenly Dao shattered, and bizarre laws took its place. Mutated beasts, lingering souls, dead things, even a single thought can become “strange” after being steeped in these laws. The old gods are all dead, and their divine seats lie empty. That’s the protagonist’s opportunity. **The Myriad Worlds: fragments of the heavens** It’s not just this world that’s in trouble. The heavens and myriad worlds collapsed all at once, and the Myriad Worlds became infused with strangeness. The powerful, magical treasures, and fragments of civilizations fell into this world, forming one “strange little world” after another: dungeons. Entering a dungeon is like crossing into another world; clear it to obtain authority and strange treasures. **The gap between the three layers: this novel’s own twist** Wasteland technology isn’t obsolete. Li Xiuyuan uses technology to create “mechanical horrors”: mechanical prosthetics house strange gods, fusion cores provide divine power, and gene locks merge with strange laws. Technology for the bones, the bizarre for the flesh: that’s the endgame.