He is the forbidden son of the Prince of Nan Yan and the Princess of Bei Xue, born carrying the deep blood feud between their two nations. When he was seven, his father killed his mother to secure the throne and covered up the crime. A loyal servant gave his life to protect him, and the boy survived by leaping off a cliff and faking his death.
For fifteen years in the Western Frontier, he studied under Master Tianji, observing the stars and divining the rise and fall of worldly affairs, until he became a great successor of the art of Tianji. But when the Imperial Preceptor of Nan Yan hunted him down, 160,000 souls in the Western Frontier perished with him. His master sacrificed himself and sent him to Bei Xue.
In the Snow Kingdom, he met Princess Yue Yao, founded the Celestial Star Pavilion, gathered allies, and made a name for himself. At the invitation of Nan Yan's Second Prince, he used the art of Tianji to stir up the political winds, turning seven princes against one another and ultimately forcing his biological father to take his own life in atonement.
Yan Shen, ruler of the Eastern Sea, spotted an opportunity and sought to provoke a war between north and south so he could reap the rewards. As the two nations teetered on the brink of ruin, the protagonist revealed his origins and urged them to reconcile and unite against their foreign enemy. He paid with thirty years of his life to unleash a tsunami that crippled the Eastern Sea, but his hair turned completely white, leaving him with only three years to live.
His loyal servant fell in battle, and the woman he loved was sealed away with her memories frozen. The three kingdoms returned to peace. Alone, with what little life he had left, he set out for the legendary Sea of Immortality in the Western Frontier. Would he seek eternal life, or meet an ending that had long been foretold? As the wheel of Tianji turned, the stars of fate would eventually lay a path home beneath his feet.
