Earth lies desolate beneath an endless night, and humanity faces an apocalypse.
In an age of mass extinction, the survivors throw open the gates of evolution. For a time, strange beasts run rampant and ghosts and monsters wreak havoc. Humanity, unarmed and helpless, can only huddle inside the cities and pray for rescue from the Martian colonies.
But their salvation comes not from technology on a distant shore. It comes from a divine island shrine standing in the East...
When the sun is swallowed, at the edge of the Eastern Sea's Guixu, the gods suspend a sword in the heavens and awaken humanity's most primordial bloodlines. The Great Yu's Sea-Calming Needle, the Hegemon's City-Breaking Halberd, the Marquis of Wu's Eight Trigrams Formation, the power of the Nine Provinces, Xuanyuan's royal carriage, the Red Emperor's Blazing Fire... Before long, the continent is torn by conflict.
Xiang Jiuxi rides out with his blade in hand, taking command of the chaos and breaking through the deadlock. Only then does he discover the secret gestating in the deepest reaches of the universe...
