Devouring the Sky

In a mass grave under moonless skies, Zhang A'tie devours a rusted sword blade—metal, blood, and all. As iron filings scrape down his throat, crimson veins erupt across his arm: the fire lizard demon core he consumed the night before awakens. Pursuers close in with talisman lanterns flickering through the mist, but the boy only grins, teeth black with rust and rotten blood, and swallows the last shard of refined steel. In a world where power is seized by devouring the forbidden—demon cores, cursed artifacts, the very essence of heaven and earth—one outcast will consume everything in his path t…