Record of the Shattered Blade Beneath the Starry Sky

### **About the Book**

**Title**: "Record of the Starfall Blade"

**Tags**: Hard Sci-Fi x Eastern Wuxia | Identity Reversal | Interstellar Epic

**Flesh and blood are prisons for the stars, and lies are engraved in our genes.**

When interstellar bounty hunter Mo Xingyun crashed onto Earth with a dying star core inside him, he thought this was simply the end of a hunt. The colossal astral beast Zhuyin tore apart his armor, but planted a breathing beast egg in his spine. On a stormy night in the Qinling Mountains, he encountered Shen Tangshu, a woman surrounded by attackers, who could summon quantum lightning with a bronze sword. The star map shimmering at the nape of her neck matched the fragments of his shattered memories perfectly.

**When the phoenix blood of an ancient martial clan splatters across an alien battle suit:**

Shen Tangshu's sword is a lie. What looks like mottled bronze is actually a swarm of nanobots that devours starlight. The sword formula she recites, "The Calamity of Shen and Shang", is in fact the launch code for an Orion warship. Smiling, she cuts open her own ribs and presses a poisoned bone blade belonging to Mo Xingyun into her heart. "Look, the wound you left three hundred years ago is still bleeding."

**When Earth tears away its tender facade:**

Buried in the heart of Mount Zhongnan are thirty-six bronze cauldrons, each holding a frozen corpse with Mo Xingyun's face. An elder of the Martial Alliance holds an antimatter jade ruyi, a pirate emblem from the Galactic Federation's wanted notice branded on his forehead. The deadliest truth lies dormant in the moonlight: whenever Mo Xingyun uses the power of his star core, a crystalline tendril grows from the Qinling Mountains' ley lines. It is Zhuyin's true form, and the restless other half of the soul in his genetic chain.

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