When the Wicked Empress Starts Building a Career

According to ancient legend, “Oneness” is the highest creative force in heaven and earth, and the final destination of all realms.

Shen Qingling unexpectedly awakens her bloodline and becomes the wielder of the “Core of Order,” the heart of the Oneness Decree, only to discover that she is merely a pawn in an ancient trial. The road to the Ruins opens, and prodigies from countless realms compete. Only the victor can glimpse the truth of “Oneness.”

Her nemesis turns out to be the bearer of another “Core of Chaos,” an avatar of destruction who has sworn to annihilate all order.

Order and chaos, creation and destruction: they are destined to oppose one another, yet forced to travel together. On a trial road rife with lethal dangers, Shen Qingling gradually discovers that “Oneness” is no gift, but a cruel cycle that has persisted since time immemorial. The cold gaze of the star-vault’s celestial watchers, the wails of former wielders as they dissolve into motes of light, and her mother’s unfinished last words all point toward a terrifying truth.

When the final “Source Court” unfolds before her, she must face a “destiny” that demands she sacrifice herself so new life can begin, and the “temptation” to devour everything and bring all things to an end.

Can she grasp that faint glimmer on the scales tipped out of balance and find a third path? And the hand extended in desperation by the nemesis who should have been locked in a fight to the death with her: is it salvation, or an even deeper abyss?