Ephemeral Dao Dust

A mountain child's journey to the city ends in blood—kidnapped, marked for sacrifice, forced to witness souls screaming in spectral formations. Escaping death by a hair's breadth, they stumble onto the immortal path, only to discover cultivation is no heroic legend. It's a brutal world where the strong devour the weak, sects war for supremacy, and demons rise as the universe plunges into chaos. Hidden among prodigies, dismissed as dust beneath their feet, they will claw their way from obscurity through mountains of the fallen. In this age of collapsing righteousness, survival demands more than…