**Nine Heavens**: A group of three thousand floating islands composed of broken void fragments. Each island carries the relics of different civilizations and floats in the eternal night star sea.
- **Eternal Night Star Sea**: The sky is made of flowing stardust, and the stars will periodically fall into the sea of chaos, forming a spiritual energy tide. The monks need to compete for the star marrow on the night of starfall.
- **Reverse Vein Cultivation**: Different from traditional cultivation, monks need to regularly cut off their own spiritual veins to reshape themselves. Each time the vein is cut off, they will gain special abilities, but they may fall into madness.
- **Star Marrow Resonance**: Monks obtain their natal magical powers by absorbing specific star fragments. Different combinations of star marrow will produce unexpected Taoist mutations.
### Story summary
- **Orphan of a Falling Star**: Lu Zhao, a boy from a fishing village, rescued a mysterious woman on the night of falling stars. His right arm was eroded by the star marrow and turned into crystal. He unexpectedly gained the ability to see the flow of spiritual power.
- **The first appearance of the reverse pulse**: In order to suppress the rampaging star marrow, Lu Zhao was forced to cut off the Taiyin and Lung Meridians in his hands under the guidance of a mysterious woman. He found that the speed of spiritual power increased three times after cutting off the pulse.
- **Mystery of the Floating Island**: The two boarded the Jiuyao Sky Boat in search of the "bounding compass" that suppresses the Star Essence, and found that the passengers on the boat were hiding unknown secrets.
- **Star Map Mutation**: When Lu Zhao absorbed the second piece of star marrow, a strange three-walled star map formed in his body, which could disturb the meridians of others and trigger a siege by the monks on the ship.
- **The truth of eternal night**: When the sky boat passed through the eye of the storm, Lu Zhao saw a huge bronze coffin floating in the sea of chaos. The lid of the coffin was engraved with his own stars.
