Starwall Rift: The Unburned Book of Guixu

During the Yongchang era, the constellations shifted and undercurrents stirred through the martial world. Jiang Li, a disciple of the Cloudhidden Grotto Heaven, bears the fate of a Profound Dragon. After his master mysteriously vanishes, he discovers that he is a living vessel for the ancient secret text, the Marrow of Lianshan Yi. A bronze coffin emerges, and the Ninth Layer of the Return to Ruins opens into the sky. A thousand-year conspiracy, using constellations as its game pieces and flesh and blood as its stakes, begins to surface.

Shen Qingya, the gifted libationer of Qixia Academy, can glimpse the secrets of Heaven with the double pupil in his right eye, yet a forbidden parasite-raising art lies buried in his left arm. Lu Jinglan, an outcast from Qingyang, hides a love parasite in his broken sword and is willing to descend into the Netherworld to save the medicinal girl Rong Zhao. A Yuan, the red-robed soul-bride, has had her memories of countless reincarnations locked away by a Nine Palaces knot. Half human and half parasite, she walks the boundary between life and death. The three's fates intertwine into a calamity of Heaven, Earth, and Man. Together, they brave the trials of the Heavenly Steps and uncover the horrifying truth behind the Nine Nether organization, which raises parasites by feeding them humans.

Star-sand divination, mechanisms that burn the heavens, and life-lamps that consume one's years: every move in this mystical martial world conceals a deadly astrological design.

Mystical martial arts x suspenseful twists x a heart-wrenching ensemble. Like Sword Snow Stride meets The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, where the embers burn out and the bones of the martial world are laid bare.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.