The Rootless Heaven

In a world where destiny is measured by the color of one’s spiritual roots, orphan scribe Lin Yao is born with none at all. Mocked as hollow, he survives by copying manuals for arrogant young masters—until a forbidden scripture bleeds through the page and brands his soul with the lost Dao of Emptiness, a path that devours other paths but invites judgment from Heaven itself.

Taken into the Cloudgrave Sect as a servant, Yao must navigate ruthless disciples, pill-refining feuds, ancient inheritance trials, and tournaments where defeat means mutilation or death. Each breakthrough grants him impossible power while erasing pieces of what makes him human, forcing him to ask whether transcendence is liberation—or the most elegant form of slavery.

When heavenly tribulation reveals that the gods themselves once sealed away the Rootless Dao, Yao becomes the spark of a war between sects, immortals, and the sleeping will of Heaven. To rise, he must steal fate from those born above him—and decide what kind of sky should replace the old one.