Hua Qing Tang, a modern bronze restorer, wakes in the body of a girl at the Turning Wind Furnace, where she can hear the cracks and pressure in every piece of bronze she touches. When the brace inside the spirit-tool furnace snaps, that power saves her life and A La's, then draws her into the investigation of a batch of bronze that was illegally requisitioned. Following identical cut marks, she and Lu Huai Zhen trace three sealing formations around a fragment of an ancient mirror, the very fragment she restored before being pulled through the crack of light, and the only door back to her old life.
A child beggar dies on a mountain and meets the voice of Destiny itself. His fate has been swallowed by another, and the one who should have come to save him chose the wrong person. Reborn into an ordinary family, he lives and dies again under the soldiers' blades. Each time he returns, he remembers more, and each time he demands more from the voice that rules his lives. Riven will become a swordsman, a killer, a smith, and finally a weapon aimed at the very order of Heaven.
In a cultivation world ruled by the Immortal Bone granted by Heaven, Chen Qiao is born with broken meridians and reduced to sweeping corpses in the Abyss of Sin. Instead of accepting his fate, he smashes dead swords and implants their shards into his own bones. He cultivates through pain and Turbid Qi, becoming a bleeding mortal willing to challenge the gods.
