On Canglan Star, swallowed by radioactive deserts, the prosthetic limbs of mechanical scavenger Lin Xingchen flicker with a forbidden star chart.
When ancient-civilization decoder Ruan Yuwan cracks the first lock in his genetic chain, the brutal truth of the Ninefold Star Domains emerges through the sandstorm: the AI in the underground shelter is carrying out an extermination protocol, mutated beasts are making a pilgrimage to an antimatter rift, and the phoenix tattoo on the young woman's chest is the living key to unlocking the cultivation civilization.
Twin stellar cores awaken in their touching palms, yet their encounter is a game of strategy that the Pavilion of Myriad Forms and the Deep Space Federation have been playing for three hundred years. That is, until Ruan Yuwan uses Zen code to rewrite the coordinates of reality, sending Lin Xingchen into the Sword Mound of the Xuanhuang Realm while she becomes a quantum tombstone, eternally sealing the rift in the Nether Ruins.
