Seventeen hundred meters beneath Fulong Mountain lies the Thirteenth District of the Zhen'e Directorate, a place from which no one returns.
Five years ago, Lu Chen, the legitimate son of the Lu family, was framed by his stepmother and used alive to suppress the S-rank calamity known as the Dying Lamp. Everyone believed that not a bone of him remained.
Five years later, the seal collapses, and calamity energy sweeps across the city. He emerges from the abyss with the Dying Lamp bound to him, becoming the most dangerous "discarded pawn" in the eyes of the Zhen'e Directorate, as well as prey coveted by the Unseen Hall, an evil sect.
The world fears calamity artifacts like tigers and dreads heretical cultivators like ghosts, yet no one knows that when he raises his lamp, all calamities bow.
The secret of the Su family's bloodline, the truth behind his mother's brutal death, the Calamity Source Gate beneath the Lu family grounds, and the three scattered fragments of the Dying Lamp...
From the moment he walks out of prison, the skies over Lingjing are destined to turn upside down.
Liu Yuru's poison schemes, the Unseen Hall's sinister machinations, one blood debt after another: he will collect them all with his own hands.
The long night stretches on, and calamities run rampant.
Holding a Dying Lamp, he returns from the abyss to illuminate every shadow in the human world.
