Ye Chen, a good-for-nothing cast aside by his family, awakens the Candle Dragon bloodline on the brink of death and uncovers a shocking conspiracy. The ancient divine artifact, the Kunlun Mirror, has reappeared in the mortal world, its nine fragments scattered far and wide, each concealing a secret. As Ye Chen searches for them, he gradually discovers that he is the reincarnation of the Candle Dragon, sealed away a thousand years ago. The true purpose of the Dragon Hunt Project is to use his bloodline to reopen the Heavenly Road and turn the entire cultivation world into a stairway to heaven.
As the truth gradually comes to light, Ye Chen discovers that his mother, the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, sacrificed herself because of this conspiracy, as did the destruction of the great sects and even the fate of the entire cultivation world. With Su Qingxue by his side, Ye Chen embarks on a path to defy heaven and change his destiny. With the Dragon Lord's arrival and the Heavenly Road collapsing, he must make a choice: sacrifice himself to save all living beings, or defy heaven and reforge the order of the Three Realms?
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
The essence of the confrontation between the Star God and the Candle Dragon is the collision of two views on the survival of civilization: the former represents the absolutely rational sower of civilization, who regards the Three Realms as a petri dish; the latter symbolizes the will to resist born in chaos. But the author did not fall into a simple confrontation between good and evil. Behind the giant bronze gate at the core of the Star Abyss, we saw a deeper tragedy - the so-called rebel Ye Chen was just the 375th program written by the Star God. This nested structure in which the observer is also the observed is like a spiritual version of The Matrix, but it also presents a unique cultural quality due to the infusion of oriental imagery such as the Nirvana of the Flying Rooster and the Weeping Dragon's Blood.