Ascending to Immortality

[Cthulhu + Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland + Mind-Bending Sci-Fi + Immortal Boy + Wild Imagination + Redemption + Chinese Mythology + Episodic Stories]

In an apocalypse where the "Black Sun" has swallowed the sun, a boy named "Wuming" carries a silver case containing silicon-based remains,

walking with an immortal body into Fengxu, the only surviving city on the land of Jiurang, a vast metropolis where mutations and machines coexist.

To fulfill his long-held wish of "becoming an immortal" and resurrect the silicon-based lifeform inside the case,

he follows the guidance of Fengxu's administrator, "Black Snake Taibai," and hunts down four immortals who stole the "Firestone."

From the "Southern Li Abyss," where flesh grows in wild profusion, to the "Eastern Zhen Forest," where time and space are in disarray, the "Northern Ming Peach Blossom Haven," a sunken city beneath the sea, and finally the "Western Metal Palace," a ruined palace among the stellar remains,

Wuming ventures again and again into strange realms, unravels the secrets of various "immortal bodies," and retrieves the "Firestone,"

while continually witnessing humanity's kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, obsession and infatuation in the apocalypse.

Among the lives that cross paths with Wuming on his journey are Old Turtle, Jiu Niang, Wu Song, Meili, Lie Yukou, Zhu Ganglie, Ling Jiu, Taibai... and her. Wuming also gradually uncovers the truth behind "resurrection": a forbidden path to reversing the universe's increase in entropy.

In the end, what awaits Wuming: the hope of saving the person he cherishes, or the cold mockery of the laws of the universe?

Or perhaps another earth-shattering deception, carefully woven by Taibai?