Su Deng, an orphan from a ruined temple in Qingxi Town, unexpectedly lights a starless life-lamp and awakens the bloodline of the ancient Bai Ze. From that moment on, he sets out to defy fate. Bearing three incomplete volumes of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and an unwavering determination to find his parents, he ventures into the Kunlun Ruins and breaks into the Hall of Enlightenment, survives deadly trials in the City of Broken Order, and challenges the Heavenly Order Clan in the Realm of Fixed Order. Step by step, he uncovers the secrets behind his eighteen years of imprisonment and the crisis threatening to destroy the Three Realms.
From the Lamp Realm to the Reincarnation Realm, he uses his life-lamp as his guide and the mountains and seas as his witness. He rallies those who defy fate and unites the hopes of countless beings across the myriad realms to oppose Pangu’s dark side, which has become one with oblivion; break the Epochal Curse of the Dao Devourers; and confront the destructive might of the Source Realm’s Guixu Divine Clan. Along the way, Ling Shuang fights at his side, blade in hand, sharing life and death with him. Elders such as Cang Xuan and Ye Chen give their lives to protect him, while formidable foes like Tian Xuan and the Lord of Yuan Devouring close in from every side.
The twelve incomplete volumes of the Classic of Mountains and Seas conceal the secrets of Pangu’s creation of the world, while a single Dao principle of the Reincarnation Realm can determine whether chaos endures forever. Su Deng must not only gather all the fragments to reforge Pangu’s Axe and restore the shattered Heavenly Dao, but also find a new path that will let chaos flourish endlessly, caught between creation and destruction. In a mortal body, he shoulders the responsibilities of the gods; with a heart devoted to protecting others, he lights the way through the mountains and seas. At the end of the starry sea, he finally grasps the truth that “purity and turbidity coexist, and reincarnation never ends,” bringing peace back to the myriad realms and keeping the life-lamp burning bright among the mountains and seas.
This is a legendary tale of defying fate across the Three Realms and the starry sea, an epic about protection, companionship, and growth. Amid flashing blades and life-or-death choices, it tells a rousing story of courage and conviction: “My fate is mine to command, not Heaven’s.”
