After the first story of Ze Tian Ji came to an end, the world did not return to peace. A new crisis surged like an undercurrent.
Chen Changsheng brought back a fragment of bronze from the depths of the sea of stars. It seemed ordinary, but concealed a tremendous secret. When he entered the Orthodox Academy, he encountered a woman in white wearing a veil in the autumn rain. The silver bell at her waist rang strangely, and her face bore a striking resemblance to Nan Ke, the fallen Southern Saintess. Her identity was a mystery. At the bottom of a cold pool, the corpse of a black dragon surfaced. Star patterns on the bronze fragment spread like living things, Chen Changsheng's bones crackled, and the vision of the Star Abyss collapsing appeared in the dragon's eyes. A cataclysm that would determine the fate of the starry river quietly began to unfold.
The pressure of Holy Empress Tianhai descended, and the silver bangle beneath Xu Yourong's divine general's robes resonated with the white-clad woman's silver bell. As Chen Changsheng deciphered the star chart on the bronze fragment, he discovered it was a key to the Star Abyss. The bloodstain on the chart's seventh star of the Big Dipper foretold the Star Abyss's instability. Meanwhile, the bronze fragment set the power of the stars over the capital trembling, and the anomalies in the land where the stars had fallen grew more violent. During a solar eclipse, crimson cracks appeared across the sky, an ancient altar emerged, and blood-red chains shot straight toward Chen Changsheng.
It turned out that the upheaval in the Star Abyss was closely tied to the battle in the Garden of Zhou. The mysterious woman in white might be Nan Ke's shadow, or the embodiment of the Star Abyss. Someone was trying to break the Star Abyss's seal. Chen Changsheng, Xu Yourong, and the others realized they had to stop it from opening, or the continent would face irreparable ruin. They would embark on an even more perilous journey, uncover the ultimate secret behind the Star Abyss as the dawn broke over the starry river, and rewrite the course of fate.
