The Star-Sea Ruins: Humanity’s Path to Breaking Through

Synopsis of Zhang Tao

Flood-control hero Zhang Tao dies in a flood and transmigrates to another world. After cultivating for a thousand years and ascending through the tribulation, he discovers that he has returned to Earth in his previous life, at the very moment of his death. His two bodies miraculously merge, preserving both the terrifying cultivation and memories he gained as a cultivator at the Tribulation Stage.

He thinks he has simply been reborn to seek revenge, but is stunned to discover that behind this seemingly ordinary modern world lies a secret capable of overturning the universe.

The myths of ancient China are not fiction. The Great Array of Absolute Heaven and Earth, which cut off the worlds of immortals and mortals, was built to protect humanity by sealing away a universal civilization screening and reclamation system known as Guixu. The immortals of old have long since ventured into the sea of stars, while Earth is merely a test site in the Guixu System, soon to be formatted.

Alongside Zhu Qingyu, who bears the destiny of the Dragon Maiden, Zhang Tao brings together modern technology and the power of ancient cultivation. He goes from protecting a single region to facing the agents of Guixu among the stars. His path is about more than personal revenge and ascension: the survival of human civilization, and even the entire universe, is at stake.

When he finally breaks through layer upon layer of barriers and ascends once more, he finds not the immortal realm, but the cold core of the Guixu System and a warning that has echoed across the ages: “Absolute Heaven and Earth, forever seal this monster.”

This is a game of wits against the Creator, with Earth as the board and civilization as the stakes. From the whirlpools of Poyang Lake to the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, from timelines of the past to possibilities in the future, he must surpass the Heavenly Dao and become the one and only “variable.”