On the night of Jingzhe, when the bronze gu altar cracked open, he saw the truth from eighteen years ago.
Jiang Wuya, an abandoned infant from Miao territory, grew up raising gu to survive. But on the night the Blood Jade King Gu awoke, his master used a puppet gu to push him into a bottomless underground river. As crimson gu mist ate through Mirage Cliff, the web of blue-green markings on his chest spread into an ancient totem. The saintess who vanished at the Gu God ceremony twenty years ago shared his blood.
A Central Plains swordsman's death warrant, a Black Miao priest's heart-eating worms, and the Dragon-Locking Needles hidden in the sleeves of Xuantian Sect's shadow guards all drive him to decipher the star map fragment inside the jade pendant. Meanwhile, the thousand-year-old gu worm parasitizing his spine gnaws at his dreams night after night: “Are you the Gu God's vessel, or the new king who will slay the gods?”
During the lunar eclipse on Hanging Coffin Cliff, Jiang Wuya crushes the last Lovebound Gu. He will show those who manipulate fate with gu poison how a gu spirit body, devoured for eighteen years, can swallow the entire martial world in return.
