Master of the Earth's Veins

Deep within the planetary wreckage, a genetic experiment sealed away for three thousand years reaches its ultimate eruption. When the Star Ruins girl in the cryogenic pod opens her mismatched eyes, the sparks dancing in her left eye and the crimson streams of data in her right foretell a deadly crisis: the Bionic Oracle's genetic prison project has turned the Star Ruins survivors into living energy sources for a demon-feeding array!

Zhu Youchuan and his companions are trapped deep in a matrix of cultivation pods. Three hundred mutated embryos with bronze bone wings burst from their cocoons, the Starfire markings flickering on the backs of their necks concealing god-slaying code. Li the Blacksmith's burning vines, the bronze bell Xiao Cao hurls with all her strength, the resonance between Little Sister's lingering soul and the Kindling Core... In this desperate predicament, forces from every side intertwine into a flash of light that may break the deadlock. Meanwhile, the ancient memories awakening within the Star Ruins girl are tearing apart the Oracle's genetic tampering and the captain's sealed Kindling across the sea of stars.

As a rainstorm of starfire extinguishes the bronze spores, the warning inscription sealed with the first captain's life reappears in the universe at the heart of the shattering planetary wreckage. The truth behind three thousand years of genetic experiments is finally pieced together from the embers of the Kindling, forming a star chart that leads to new life. But the Oracle's final counterattack takes the form of an annihilation beam from a Taotie warship, aimed straight at the clasped starfire hands inside the escape pod...