On the Tianxuan Continent, the Twelve Star Palaces reign supreme. At sixteen, one’s star awakening determines one’s fate. Those without stars are doomed to remain lowly commoners forever.
When Xu Xing awakened at sixteen, his astrolabe was dead and dark. He was driven out of Falling Star Town and banished to the wilderness.
But no one knew that the mark of Ophiuchus, erased from the world a thousand years ago, lay hidden in his palm: the forbidden thirteenth star destiny.
Ophiuchus devours stars, seizes the radiance of the Twelve Palaces, and can defy the celestial paths.
The Darkstar organization hunted him for thousands of miles. Scorpio star arts burned mountains as they hunted him down. The Aries royal clan had humiliated him, and the Star Hall declared him a calamity destined to overthrow the world.
“When Ophiuchus appears, all life will be devastated. Kill him without mercy!”
Everyone wanted him dead, while whispers from the abyss tempted him day and night to devour everything.
Then a heterochromatic-eyed Aquarius girl crossed the sea of fire to find him, revealing the truth buried for a thousand years:
A thousand years ago, the Lord of Ophiuchus Palace had never been a traitor. He stood alone against the abyssal calamity, only to be framed and sealed by the combined Twelve Palaces.
When the Twelve Star Palaces rallied the entire continent to hunt him down, Xu Xing gripped his short blade as the black snake in his palm slowly awakened.
“You call me a calamity? Then with the thirteenth star destiny, I’ll forge the order of the heavens anew!”
