In the Jade Peak Sect, servants don't cultivate. They carry water, clean floors, and stay invisible. Lian Soh has done exactly that for seven years.
Then he finds a shattered jade slip in a forbidden archive. The technique inside is incomplete, unstable, and does something no orthodox method would ever attempt: it deliberately breaks his meridians and rebuilds them in a configuration that shouldn't exist.
The pain nearly kills him. The result is power that looks like demonic corruption to every cultivator who senses it.
Now Lian has to hide what he is while the sect's head of discipline hunts for the source of corrupted qi in his halls. His only ally is Mei Xiang, a sharp-tongued outer disciple who sells him failed alchemy pills and asks too many questions. And the golden boy of Jade Peak -- Brother Hao, Core Formation stage, genuinely kind, genuinely dangerous -- is starting to pay attention.
The orthodox sects call his technique heresy. The demonic sects want to steal it. And someone sealed it away for a reason Lian is only beginning to understand.
He was invisible for seven years. He's about to become the most hunted cultivator in the world.
Note: This book was written with AI assistance. The worlds, systems, characters, and story are the author's.
Genre: Fantasy
Then he finds a shattered jade slip in a forbidden archive. The technique inside is incomplete, unstable, and does something no orthodox method would ever attempt: it deliberately breaks his meridians and rebuilds them in a configuration that shouldn't exist.
The pain nearly kills him. The result is power that looks like demonic corruption to every cultivator who senses it.
Now Lian has to hide what he is while the sect's head of discipline hunts for the source of corrupted qi in his halls. His only ally is Mei Xiang, a sharp-tongued outer disciple who sells him failed alchemy pills and asks too many questions. And the golden boy of Jade Peak -- Brother Hao, Core Formation stage, genuinely kind, genuinely dangerous -- is starting to pay attention.
The orthodox sects call his technique heresy. The demonic sects want to steal it. And someone sealed it away for a reason Lian is only beginning to understand.
He was invisible for seven years. He's about to become the most hunted cultivator in the world.
Note: This book was written with AI assistance. The worlds, systems, characters, and story are the author's.
Genre: Fantasy
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