Clouded Eyes, Clear Away the Filth

Five hundred years ago, “they” awoke beneath the earth. Nearly ten billion people mutated into blight beasts overnight, and the survivors sought shelter in two thousand underground cities around the world, clinging to life. The upper citizens lived in floating cities tens of thousands of meters above the ground, while ordinary people lived three thousand meters underground in the deep cities. The surface was nothing but contaminated ruins. Lin Mochen was a lowly contamination cleaner in a deep city. Every day, his job was to dispose of blight beast corpses. At twenty, he was still an ordinary man: no talent for cultivation, no connections, and no future. Then a blight beast that could speak appeared. “The fifth.” Those three words changed his life completely. He awakened the Turbid Eye. In the archives, he discovered that someone had tampered with his father’s file. Wang Jiu, the captain he trusted most, died in an “accident,” his body burned beyond recognition. He had no choice but to flee the deep city and venture to the surface. Up there were mutated blight beasts, spies from among the upper citizens, and the truth about what had happened five hundred years ago. He encountered the Silver Wolf of the beastfolk, the ancient vine of the plantfolk, and Ghost Master, who had lived for five hundred years. The Five Turbid Eyes are humanity’s only hope. Find them, bring them together, and then seal “them” away. But can Ghost Master be trusted? Why isn’t Qing Yi surprised by his arrival? Is Wang Jiu really dead? And who is the person on the mural from five hundred years ago, who looks exactly like him? No one in this world can be trusted completely. Lin Mochen clenched his fists. He was only a good-for-nothing who had escaped from a deep city. But he had to grow stronger, because he was the fifth Turbid Eye, and humanity’s last hope.