The Heaven-Eating Root

In the Ninefold Skylands, a cultivator’s destiny is carved by their spiritual root—flame, thunder, sword, void. Lin Shen has none. Born rootless in a border village and sold as a corpse servant to the Azure Lotus Sect, he survives by carrying the bodies of failed disciples down from the tribulation cliffs. But when lightning strikes a dead immortal’s coffin, Lin Shen awakens a forbidden root that does not absorb qi from heaven and earth. It devours the laws binding them.

Hunted by elders, courted by demons, and haunted by the immortal whose memories now bleed into his dreams, Lin Shen must climb from outer disciple to sky-shattering sovereign while learning the terrible price of power. Every pill he refines steals a fragment of fate. Every breakthrough invites a tribulation meant for gods. And above the Ninefold Skylands, something ancient is watching—the Heaven that once buried his root for a reason.