On the night the Ziwei Star fell, Lu Chen’s beloved tore out his sword soul, and the entire Lu clan was wiped out. At death’s door, the bronze gourd left behind by his master bloomed with the patterns of the Space-Time Dao, and the Heavenly Retribution Sword Spirit, sealed away for four hundred years, broke free. From then on, his shattered sword soul began devouring the chaotic astral winds, while the mottled gourd reflected twelve bronze altars sealing star essences.
When Lu Chen discovers that the gifts from the four great clans conceal bone-corroding poison, when his fiancée’s Ice Soul Sword pierces his younger brother’s heart, and when an inspector from the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion descends to the lower realm to harvest its prodigies, he takes up his sword and cleaves open a rift in space and time. In the river of years, he glimpses the truth from four hundred years ago: ascension is nothing but a blood-sacrifice scheme laid by the upper realm over a thousand years; the so-called supreme sword masters all became star remains, frozen upon bronze altars.
Now he journeys to the Mystic Abyss, where he will rewrite the laws of cultivation with a Chaos Sword Physique and reverse karma and reincarnation with the Time-Reversal Gourd. Wherever the Heavenly Retribution Sword points lies the end of the clan’s traitors, and the beginning of the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion’s collapse. The star map gradually lighting up inside the gourd points toward the white-robed Sword Venerable, who should have perished in the turbulence of space and time...
