The Nine Cauldrons' Mysterious Song: Chronicles of Turmoil in the Nine Provinces

The Nine Continents fall, and dragon energy weeps blood; the Frost Soul is about to die out, and the Cicada devours the heavens.

As the Shenzhou dynasty collapses, the foul power of the “Devouring Abyss” spreads like poisonous vines, corrupting heaven and earth. The young Chen Zijie bears a fragmentary dragon pendant left behind by the previous dynasty, but his dantian has been torn apart by tainted dragon energy and twisted national fate, turning him into a living “human miasma.” At death's door, an icy blade of fate shackles Chen Zijie to Xia Zhiwei, a girl born with the sacred “Pure-World Azure Plume” constitution. Like an ice phoenix flying into the flames, she suppresses the cicada poison at the cost of burning away the essence of her sacred constitution, leaving her hands cracked with frost and her life force withered. Seeking a way to survive, the two descend into an ancient battlefield where the Frost Marrow Lady has lain frozen for ten thousand years. The iron-blooded remnant soul Qin Lie, his body tainted by corruption, shoulders his final obsession with protecting his former master. Amid waves of vengeful spirits and cataclysmic ice collapses, he builds a city of ice and flesh.

Chen Zijie's struggle reaches its breaking point: the cold devouring of the Ink-Jade Cicada, the brutal greed of the destructive dragon soul, and the tiny spark of his own will tear at him fiercely beneath the Frost Marrow Lady's awakening gaze. When Xia Zhiwei's sacred constitution burns away completely and her life comes to an end, Chen Zijie uses his broken body as a catalyst, burning away his tainted essence to summon the Cold Marrow of the Broken Spear. He builds a jagged ice coffin and seals her final remains inside, preserving them in eternal protection. A drop of blood from his heart seeps into the coffin, becoming the only glimmer of light in the stillness of death.