Night Evolution

Night Evolution is a long multiverse infinite-flow novel by the author Shushang Tudou. It was serialized on Qidian Chinese from July 2018, completed in March 2020, and runs to 1,315 chapters and about 2,857,800 characters. The story takes place after the collapse of human civilization on Blue Star: survivors crossed the dark rift and fled to an otherworld called Dawn Continent, where they used ancient ruins and a supercomputer called Dawn to establish the Dawn Federation. Six hundred years later, humanity discovers that Dawn Continent, four hundred times the size of Blue Star, is merely a closed island in Goat Horn Lake on the Dark Continent; and the ruins of the first four human eras suggest that they will eventually perish again. The only way out is the superdimensional evolution game opened up by a mysterious civilization—a very small number of "superdimensional evolvers" experience life-and-death cycles with only one life, in anime, film, and game worlds already lost to Blue Star, as well as in self-generating story worlds. The protagonist, Zhao Mu, is an ordinary poor man from Seaweed City who becomes humanity's foremost assassin, "Night Blade," three hundred years into the Dark Era. After witnessing the Hell Reaper wipe out the Federation in a single night, he is reborn through his soul talent, "Time Mindforce," and returns three hundred years earlier. This time, using foreknowledge and ruthless rationality, he climbs from the bottom to become the strongest superdimensional evolver, repeatedly tempering himself in cyclical worlds such as Hunter × Hunter, Naruto, Harry Potter, and One Piece, and gradually uncovering the truth of "immortality" and the eras of the Dark Continent. The book is known for its decisive slaughter, elaborate worldbuilding, and dark worldview.