The sky was torn apart by the black celestial body with a diameter of 350 kilometers, and pollution swallowed 90% of the land like a tide. Strange things are wandering in the ruins, and humans are lingering within the high walls. Power becomes the only law, and the price for gaining power is madness and death.
Xu Youqing, 13 years old, is the only successor of Qingxu Guan.
In this era when Taoist priests were forgotten, he guarded the dilapidated Taoist temple and his only relative - his adopted sister Xu Nian. He can draw talismans, make elixirs, and use ancient Taoist techniques to fight against unspeakable horrors. But his biggest advantage is that his refining efficiency is slightly higher than others.
"Pindao is just a mortal."
He said this, but in order to protect his sister, he stepped into desperate situations again and again.
Xu Nian, 11 years old, is innocent and weak, always following behind his brother.
She would talk in strange sleep at night: "The stars are calling me... So many eyes..." She has incredible resistance to pollution and can predict fear before danger comes. Xu Youqing thought this was luck, but he didn't know——
This is proof of being marked.
She is the vessel chosen by Black Star.
From Qingxu Temple to the market, from the tower to the steel city, from the human gathering place to the core of the Black Star.
Xu Youqing used Taoism and wisdom to carve out a way out in the apocalypse, and used alchemy to exchange for resources for survival. He doesn't build power, doesn't collect a harem, doesn't pursue invincibility, he just wants to survive with his sister.
But fate never favors mortals.
When his sister's life experience is gradually revealed, and when the truth about Black Star emerges, Xu Youqing faces the cruelest choice——
Protect your sister, or protect humans?
Let her live, or let her escape?
