Cheon Tae-san is a scholar with a very specific specialty. He reforms hellions. When one of the murim's great clans finds itself saddled with a son too spoiled and too violent for anyone else to handle, they send for him, and he hands the boy back a decent man. The work has made his name across the martial world.
What none of his clients know is why he needs the work. He was born with the Heavenly Martial Sacred Body, a constitution that grasps ten things from being shown one and that will kill him young. The only way to buy himself more years is to gather the wheel-energy of the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper, one star at a time, from the six people alive who carry them.
Then he takes in a nameless girl with no memory of who she is, and finds himself keeping company with the Ice Sacred Body, the murim's oldest mystery. The more he learns about her, the nearer he comes to a truth the martial world has spent a long time burying.
