In the ancient war between gods and demons, the Star Lord Siming burned up his divine body to seal the extraterrestrial demons, scattering one hundred thousand fragments of stars across the mortal world. When top modern assassin Su Li is struck by a meteor shower carrying divine fragments during a mission for the space agency, she transmigrates into the disgraced daughter of a military family in the Yunlan Kingdom, a girl whose spiritual bones have been gouged out and whose face has been ruined.
A centipede-shaped scar on her left cheek seals an awakened star spirit root, while a galaxy that devours all things flows beneath her rotting skin. To restore her spiritual bones, she ventures alone into the ghost market to bid on heavenly treasures, only to slam Ye Yuan, ruler of the Netherworld and a Tribulation Transcendence expert, against a wall with a shoulder throw. Beneath his black robes, the Big Dipper scars on his back, together with the star chart on her palm, reveal the truth behind the ancient Starfall Pavilion’s destruction.
When the ninth tribulation lightning tears away the disguise of her useless spirit root, the scars peel from Su Li’s left cheek, revealing a peerless beauty rebuilt from divine remains. Yet the heavenly demon sealed within Ye Yuan grows restless every time she advances, and the fiery seal beneath his collarbone begins to crumble.
The prophecy in the Heavenly Derivation Scroll, suspended above the three great holy temples, is coming true:
“On the night Mars guards the Heart, the bearer of divine remains shall appear. When the star-devouring spirit root emerges, heaven and earth shall fall.”
But they discover that two nearly obliterated lines are also carved deep within the prophetic stone wall:
“If divine remains be her vessel, and stars her oars, she who crosses the River of Oblivion against its current...”
“Can defy the Heavenly Dao and slay the gods.”
In this deadly game played out on the continent as a chessboard, the night Su Li presses a poisoned dagger to Ye Yuan’s heart, she finally sees the truth reflected in his mismatched eyes: the bronze-masked man who used his divine essence to shield her from heavenly tribulation twenty years ago, and the man before her, coursing with demonic energy, bear the same broken star-vein pattern.
