Eternal Dusk Returns to Ruins

The moss at the bottom of the cold pool was like frozen hair. When Shen Jin opened his eyes, his throat was full of the taste of rust. He remembered being burned to death on the Guixu chessboard by the "Zhutian Lantern Festival"—but now cold water flooded his lungs, and the withered lamp vein on his wrist was dim as dead ash. (System activated) [Zhutian Guixu System bound] [Detected host holding "discarded item": Broken Vein Withered Lamp·Inferior] [Consume 10 Guixu points to reverse-engineer into: Weiyang Withered Lamp·Supreme] Shen Jin was stunned for a moment, then let out a low laugh. Three hundred years ago, he was burned to death on this chessboard; three hundred years later—he would overturn the entire eternal night from this cold pool. Footsteps suddenly sounded from the pool's surface. "Shen Jin, the bastard son, at midnight tonight—" Shen Zhuo's voice drifted down from the shore, in the tone of a smiling tiger, "Third Uncle will 'sever' your withered lamp vein for you." Shen Jin's fingertips stirred a wisp of pool water in the darkness. The phantom of the Weiyang Withered Lamp silently lit a thread of light in his palm. — Description from novelcodex.org