The Dao of the Hollow Star

In the rain-starved borderlands of the Azure Crucible Empire, sixteen-year-old Lin Vey is born with the most humiliating fate a cultivator can possess: hollow spiritual roots, meridians that devour qi but never retain it. Sold to the Iron Lotus Sect as a furnace servant, he spends his days cleaning pill cauldrons for disciples who call him an empty bowl. Then, beneath a shattered mountain altar, Vey awakens an ancient inheritance older than heaven itself: the Hollow Star Scripture, a forbidden path that does not gather qi, but consumes flaws in the world.

Every breakthrough brings power, insight, and a question that gnaws deeper than any tribulation: if heaven is perfect, why is it full of cracks? Hunted by sect elders, envied by geniuses, and tempted by a primordial will sleeping beyond the stars, Vey must refine pills from impossible materials, survive tournaments rigged by immortals, and challenge the hidden law that binds all cultivators to the sky.