End of New Calendar Eighteenth Year, Sector D8B3, northern Wasteland, Shelter (1,19), 3rd floor, a relatively clean and tidy single suite.
Beside the bed, there were piles of fist-sized white papers scattered about, densely covered with formulas and a vast array of numbers that could make one dizzy at a glance.
A young man lay sprawled out, deeply sunken into the sheets, completely stiffened.
His limbs had already gone cold, and his pupils still retained traces of fear and despair.
The man's name was Xu Shu, and he was eighteen years old.
He was dead.
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In the realm of the Transcendents, there was a well-known fact.
It was the law of leveling known as "Peer Rank PK Winner Advances."
Every Transcendent had a Curse Seal within them, one Seal for the First Order, two for the Second, and three for the Third, and so on.
They were linked in their respective distinctive ways.
