A Thousand Heavens Beneath My Feet

In the ash-choked border village of Grayreed, sixteen-year-old Lin Qiye is born with shattered spiritual roots, a death sentence in a world where cultivation decides whether one kneels in mud or walks among stars. When an imperial sect arrives to test the village children, Qiye expects humiliation. Instead, a forbidden relic hidden inside his bones awakens: the World-Seed, an ancient inheritance said to contain the ruins of a heaven devoured by its own gods.

To cultivate, Qiye must do what no orthodox scripture permits: refine broken things into strength, turn tribulation into nourishment, and build a Dao not by ascending above the mortal world, but by carrying it with him. Hunted by sect elders, courted by demons, challenged in tournaments, and betrayed by those who fear what he may become, Qiye rises through realms where every breakthrough demands a price. Yet the higher he climbs, the clearer the truth becomes: the heavens are not eternal. They are prisons, and someone built them.