In the Age of Declining Dharma, Earth hides a world-shaking secret:
While cultivators on the summit of Kunlun Mountain still breathe in the essence of the sun and moon, the flames of war in the Jiuyou Star System have already reached the edge of the solar system.
Ye Wuchen, an illegitimate son of the Ye family bearing a star-core seal, is hunted by an interstellar fleet on the night he awakens at eighteen. The strange movements of a rusty iron ring allow him to devour an extraterrestrial battle suit, and his right arm crystallizes, gaining the terrifying power to devour stars. His mother's leftover Mars expedition logs lead him to the ruins of an ancient battlefield on the far side of the moon, where the remnant soul of the Ziwei Fairy sleeps, able to control the Milky Way's chain of stars.
Cultivation clans command planet-scale Immortal-Slaying Sword formations, the Star Lord Tianxuan pilots an antimatter fleet across light-years, and the twenty-eight mechanical ascendants awaken in the Kuiper Belt. In this dark forest where interstellar and cultivation civilizations collide, Ye Wuchen gradually discovers:
- The star chart his father obtained on Mars twenty years ago records the apocalyptic coordinates of the Jiuyou Star System's cycle of rebirth
- The "Star-Crosser Project" his mother took part in had long since bound his genes to the seventh Star Lord of the Big Dipper
- Each time he breaks a star-vein shackle, the Starfall Ring reveals bloody memories of the collapse of the ancient Heavenly Court
From teahouses on Earth to the Star-Ring Martial Academy, from the furnace at Mars's equator to Neptune's superfluid vortex, the truth of a universe spanning dimensions is gradually revealed:
When cultivators' flying swords cleave stars and quantum AI fathoms the mysteries of nascent souls, Ye Wuchen must ultimately choose:
Will he become the Primordial Star Lord who reboots the Jiuyou, or transform into the final Demon-Sealing Pillar that buries the civilizations of the heavens?
**Highlights:**
- The laws of flying swords versus starships
