It has been three hundred years since magic disappeared from the Divine Land. Chen Xing is the last Great Exorcist—a young man with a tenuous grip on magic whose life is destined to end on his twentieth birthday. As whispers about the return of the demonic entity known as Mara echo across the land, Chen Xing is burdened with a daunting task: to seek out his fated counterpart, the Protector Martial God, and together, to save the world.

Enter Xiang Shu, a condemned man with a haunted past. Accused of unspeakable atrocities, Xiang Shu is an enigma—handsome, skilled, and facing execution for crimes he claims he didn't commit. As their destinies intertwine, Chen Xing and Xiang Shu embark together on a journey where the salvation of everything they know hangs in the balance.

本冊主要講述了，陳星跟隨心燈指引，在即將被秦軍攻破的襄陽城中，找到了他的護法武神項述，卻沒想項述並不答應，並趁機離開了他。一次意外，在撞破一場“魃”亂之後，陳星又與項述重聚，並在心燈的加持下，兩人合力擊敗了正在舉行儀式的怪異之人。因為這番際遇，兩人同路前往長安，但路途中項述再一次拒絕了陳星的請求，並將他帶入了秦王皇宮，也是在這裡，陳星知道了項述的真實身份。

——中文簡介摘自福建美術出版社出版《定海浮生錄1》