Slaughtering the Wasteland: From Scavenging the Gray Zone to the Pinnacle of All Races

Seventy years after the Red Mist descended, giant beasts roam the land. Humanity has built high walls across the wasteland, along with rigid barriers between social classes.

The children of the inner city's powerful families drink outrageously expensive gene serum and practice ancient martial arts in fully immersive virtual reality pods.

Meanwhile, in Gray Zone Nine, where sunlight never reaches, eighteen-year-old Lu Jin clutches a chipped alloy dagger and scavenges for food among the corpses in a radiation-blasted city.

At first, he ventured into the deadly wilderness only to get an antibacterial injection for his seriously ill younger sister, and bring his uncle, whose leg was broken, a bag of stale compressed biscuits and a box of self-heating rice that still worked.

But the apocalypse has never been kind to the honest.

Gangs prey on the weak, tycoons seize territory, and academy prodigies treat the lives of the lower classes as nothing more than weeds.

Take one step back, and there's an abyss behind you!

Then, on a night of torrential rain, Lu Jin thrust his blade through the throat of an iron-backed direwolf, and the [Kindling Fate Furnace] in his sea of consciousness roared to life.

Slay ferocious beasts, refine the essence of their blood and energy, and break the limits of martial arts techniques in a single day!

Absorb savage energy, awaken lethal abilities, and slaughter opponents above your level like pigs and dogs!

Rising with a blade from the bloody mud of the Gray Zone slums, he fights his way into the man-eating underground city.

A young god of slaughter who emerged from a mountain of corpses on the frontier, he blows away the lofty prodigies of the Federal Academy with a single punch!

When alien fleets and giant beasts from the stars tear apart the heavens, and the tycoon aristocrats kneel to offer up Earth's last spark of life...

Lu Jin grips his bloodstained battle blade and strides alone through the atmosphere, his voice ringing across the universe:

"My family stands behind this planet."

"Dare to lay a claw on it, and I'll tear you all apart, roots and all!"