Slogan: Emberlight through the endless night, Fu Rou breaks through the abyss.
A false pact from a three-hundred-year-old alliance has thrown the land into chaos, while malevolent energy has accumulated in the earth's veins for countless ages.
Su Furou bears the blood debts of the past. She traverses ruined mountains, unravels sinister plots, and settles old scores. Shen Jinci bears the fatal fate of the frigid north. He suppresses the evil with his own body and takes disaster upon his icy bones. From strangers in a past life to allies in this one, they weather three volumes of trials, dismantle the remnants of the old alliance's formations, and quell the murderous tides across the mountains. They brave the Blackstone Sacrificial Evil Array, battle the Yellow Sand death squad, and break through a two-way inner-demon illusion. Risking their lives at every turn, they keep the world's earth veins from collapsing.
They gather four Veincore Stones and stabilize the balance of the four directions, believing the end is near and the troubled age about to pass.
But the cruelest deception of heaven and earth is revealed in a thunderous instant: the Seven-Star Vein Balance was never a lock to suppress the abyss, but a key to open it.
The Abyssal forces, lying dormant for a thousand years, never tried to stop the salvation of the world. They were only waiting for the formation to be complete and the stones to be gathered, so they could use the power of the Seven Stars aligning to awaken the abyssal relic sealed deep underground since time immemorial.
The old calamity ends, and a greater one begins.
The fourth volume, The Abyssal Sea Unsealed, overturns the endgame and begins a new game.
Su Furou ventures far to Riftrock Abyss, Sunken Sand Cavern, and Fallen Star Valley, traversing every peril to gather all seven stones and uncover the secrets behind the abyss's thousand-year seal. Shen Jinci stands alone at the underground altar, resisting the abyssal breath with his broken body, tracing ancient mysteries, and suppressing the turmoil.
One breaks the game above the mountains and rivers; the other holds the line beside the abyss.
When the Seven Stars' light fades and the ancient abyssal gates burst open, they will face the ultimate truth buried by the world, defying the fated game of heaven with the faint glow of emberlight and the tenderness in their hearts.
