The light curtain sealing an ancient secret realm slowly opens, and the greatest young prodigies under heaven, all under twenty-five, rush inside.
Su Chen, who possesses the Red Dust Ruins Domain, ventures into this ancient, spirit-rich woodland with a beast-hide map in hand. Lurking mystic beasts, black-robed rogue cultivators plundering treasures, and sect disciples traveling in groups... danger hides beyond every veil of mist. He happens upon Su Muyue, the benefactor who gave him the map, and a temporary alliance forms, then falls apart. Smoke rises over Starfall Valley, while undercurrents churn around a rift in the central plane. Will three months in the secret realm bring fortune and opportunity, or trap him forever in a fragment of a prison? The young man’s path to breaking through has only just begun.