In the Jiuxiao Spiritual Realm, ascension is a big lie.
Young Lin Jin was born with an eclipse wrapped around his left hand and could steal other people's life cores for cultivation. Little did he know that this was a curse of the Ruins Keeper lineage - every time he used the power, his flesh and blood would crystallize towards the glass fragments. In order to save his sister who was involved in the tide of ruin beasts, he swallowed the ember core of the forbidden red nightmare, but what awakened in the ashes were the memories of the first generation of ruin guardians: the ruined monument where his father's sword was used to bury Long Yuan, his childhood sweetheart, the blind harpist Su Li, who carried the prophecy of the star compass, and his own beating heart was sealed with the spiritual remains of the final magic that could destroy the ninth level of heaven.
The golden-armored monks from Tiangui Division came through the clouds, and half-human monsters grafted with the limbs of ruin beasts roamed the demon clan's territory. When Lin Jin tore open the hypocritical curtain of Jiuxiao Dao, the truth was more painful than the eclipse - the so-called ascension was just to turn the top monks into living sacrifices to repair the sky rail formation. His former best friend Xiao Wuhen took charge of the Three Thousand Crows Killing Scroll and confronted him with swords. His sister volunteered to become a vessel of eclipses in order to give him a chance to survive, while Su Li played the piano and detonated the stars falling into the eternal night, just to rewrite the destined death.
In the midst of the ashes, the boy's left hand lit up the fire that burned the world.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.