The Root That Devoured Heaven

In the frost-bitten mining city of Blackbell, sixteen-year-old Liang Shen is born with a spiritual root so weak the sect examiner laughs before the entire square. But when Shen is buried alive during a spirit ore collapse, he awakens in the corpse-temple of an extinct immortal dynasty and inherits the Hunger Root: a forbidden meridian that cultivates by consuming broken laws, failed tribulations, and the dying regrets of gods.

Taken into the prestigious Azure Dusk Sect as a servant disciple, Shen must hide a power that every righteous clan would kill to possess and every demonic elder would worship. Between pill refinement duels, brutal outer sect trials, and the poisonous games of young masters, he learns that cultivation is not simply the pursuit of strength—it is the argument between man and Heaven over who has the right to define fate.

But the ancient dynasty did not die. It was sealed. And each step Shen takes toward immortality loosens another chain beneath the world.