**The cursed child of the stars is destined to cleave the eternal night.**
In Year 356 of the Xinghun Continent, the abandoned orphan Ye Chen triggers a celestial upheaval during the ceremony to awaken his spirit soul. The phantom image of an ancient star-forged sword appears in his left palm, while black mist that devours all things coils around his right arm. When the testing crystal reveals a nine-layered seal, a blood-red ghost mask flashes among the spectators.
Forced into the Tianshu Sacred Hall, Ye Chen meets Su Li in the Star Vault's secret realm. She bears the destiny of an astrologer, and the Starfall Compass in her possession, dating back three hundred years, resonates with Ye Chen's rusty pendant, conjuring a vision of an ancient altar. Yet among the memory fragments he obtains by devouring the killers of the Shadow Alliance, he sees a royal man who looks exactly like him, pierced through the heart by heavenly fire.
**“Your sword is both a key and an instrument of torture.”**
When Ye Chen cleaves the Wall of Eternal Night with his star sword energy and devours the Chaos Candle Dragon with his black-mist spirit soul, an even crueler truth awaits him: each of the seven star marks glittering along his spine was kindled with the blood of a loved one. The crescent-shaped mark on Su Li's chest, branded there to seal his rampage, is consuming the last of her life.
The moment the Shadow Alliance leader pulls back his hood, Ye Chen sees the same Big Dipper constellation in the man's right eye as in his own left. The Star Vault is collapsing, and from the depths of Guixu, an ancient chant rises from the Star Soul Altar:
**“Welcome back, 99th vessel of the military seal.”**
From forbidden child to Star Vault Sword Sovereign, every sword the boy swings tears at the chains of causality. When the light of the seven stars in conjunction pierces the eternal darkness, stars and blood shine equally bright along the blade that severs fate.
