[High-octane twists · A battle over fate · An interstellar epic]
The first star he devoured tore open the bloodiest lie of the Nine Domains.
Lin Yao, condemned as having a “phase-less, useless meridian,” awakened the Chaos Devouring Body in the depths of a frozen pool.
Star talisman arrays that others spent a century cultivating, he could devour and seize with a snap of his fingers.
The Heavenly Dao laws worshipped by the Nine Star Palaces turned out to be a fraud, altered over thousands of years.
And Su Qianxue, the maid who always said “stars can feel pain,” carried in her blood the dormant key to the universe’s undoing.
“You think this is a comeback story? It’s nothing but a scheme laid by the First Palace Master ten thousand years ago.”
When the Heart-Severing Prophecy of the Xuanji Pavilion Master came true, and Su Qianxue’s unlocked memories accelerated the star core’s rampage, Lin Yao glimpsed a cruel truth in the rift in space-time:
Every star talisman he devoured pushed him further along the First Palace Master’s path of fate;
Every choice he made to save someone sped up the countdown to his beloved becoming dust within the laws of the universe.
“Rewrite the star paths with chaos, and shatter prophecy with betrayal!”
On the night the Nine Domains of the Heavenly Ruins fell apart, Lin Yao strode over the corpses of the Twelve Star Palace Masters and flung the final page of the Ancient Tome of Star Devouring toward the heavens
The rain of stars was his burning talisman array, and his beloved’s tears were the sharpest blade of cause and effect. This time, he would devour even the “Heavenly Dao” and show the stars what he could do!
If these stars are all lies, then I shall be the first light to tear the night apart.
“The laws that a million cultivators hold sacred will be defined by me tonight!”, Lin Yao, Proclamation of Chaos
