Yun Zhi is a poor young woman from Bai Xiao Alley, the lowest quarter of the Immortal City. She scrapes by telling fortunes for people with her faint talent, the Delusion-Breaking Eye, which lets her vaguely sense good and bad fortune. People often mock her as a "half-immortal." When she is forced to divine the fortunes of a haunted house, she is unexpectedly caught up in the bloody extermination of a small clan. At the brink of death, a dormant, foreign bloodline within her is roused by the bloodshed. Not only does she clearly "see" the traces of divination left behind by the killer, which contain the Chu family's secret arts, she also instinctively retraces the killer's movements from moments earlier!
After narrowly escaping with her life, Yun Zhi is struck by the sole survivor of the massacre: Ye Xun, a gravely wounded, unconscious boy who carries an important token of the Ye family. To stay alive and uncover the truth, she has no choice but to flee with the unconscious Ye Xun, relying on her meager powers of deduction and her newly awakened ability to retrace the past through her bloodline as she tries to outmaneuver their pursuers. She soon discovers that behind the massacre lies a new round of open and covert conflict between the Chu and Ye families, with both sides targeting the legendary Starfall Fragment, said to have been left behind beyond the city when an Immortal Emperor fell. The token on Ye Xun turns out to be the crucial "key" to unlocking the fragment's seal.
The City Lord's Manor of Chu Feng, the remnants of the Ye family, all manner of demons and rogue cultivators coveting the fragment, and the true mastermind lurking behind the traces of divination, whose methods are vicious... The forces on every side sweep the two into the heart of the maelstrom like a school of sharks. In this desperate predicament, Yun Zhi must hone her art of divination, decipher the mysteries of her bloodline, and use her limited resources to survive in the gaps between the giants' moves. She must carve out a path to survival for them both and uncover the shocking truth behind the Immortal Emperor's fall, the Starfall Fragment, and her own bloodline. Every act of divination may offer a chance at survival, but it may also bring an even deadlier threat.
