The Primal Dao Flame burns through fate; defying the odds, he glimpses the cycle of reincarnation.
In the bustling lanes of Qingzhou City, Ye Ling is an oddball who even counts the ants as they move house. Then a ghostly blue Dao Flame ignites in his palm and singes a family elder's toupee. He learns that he possesses a Primal Chaos Dao Body, a power rarely seen in a thousand years. It can burn the heavens and split the earth, but it can also tear his memories to shreds. When he discovers a bloodstained map to Medicine King Valley among his mother's belongings, the blood-lotus mark blooming silently on the back of his neck has already dragged him into a deadly game between three great powers.
The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's master stakes a century of his life to glimpse his future in the Skywatch Mirror, where he sees himself bleeding from all seven orifices. At a banquet in the **Blood Soul Hall**, the Holy Maiden implants a parasite in a songstress's pupil, unaware that the Hall Master's only son is allergic to osmanthus, a weakness that holds the key to patricide.
Mu Wanqing of Medicine King Valley cuts out her heart to raise parasites. The poisonous fungus in the glass vial inside her chest was given to her by the Xiao family swordsman who stabbed her three years ago.
When Ye Ling sees different versions of himself existing at once in the Dragon-Trapping Stake Formation, and Luo Qinghuan, who can reverse time, sheds a seventh star-shaped mark like a tear at the corner of her eye, they finally uncover the truth: the original Hall Master's wandering spirit beneath the Blood Soul Hall, the ancient Zhuyin sealed by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and the Yinglong reverse scale suppressed by Medicine King Valley have resonated to form the Heart-Eroding Grand Formation. Twenty years ago, it had already sewn everyone's fate into a closed loop.
Now, holding half of a Xuantian Sect token, Ye Ling journeys between fragments of memory and visions of the future. Before the seventh blood-red star shines, he must unravel the cruelest karmic knot of all:
The disheveled man who is always getting drunk beneath the locust tree is none other than Ye Ling from the future, driven mad by the backlash of his own Primal Chaos Dao blood.
