When Ling Jue crawled out of a mass grave, a divine mark capable of devouring all things had appeared in his palm. He thought it was a gift in his darkest hour, until he met Mo Qingxian, who had entered an ancient battlefield to repair the Star Chart. Her blood could calm the backlash of the divine mark, while his aura was the Star Chart's only cure.
"Be my medicine," he whispered, gripping her by the throat. Mo Qingxian instead drove a fragment of the Star Chart into his heart. "Why don't we go to hell together?"
Years later, Ling Jue shattered the Nine Heavens Domains, leaving mountains of bones in his wake.
Yet the Star Chart in Mo Qingxian's arms reflected a scene beyond the heavens: "So it turns out we're nothing more than bugs in a cage?"
