Desert Blood Ascension

Sixteen-year-old Ling Feng scrapes by in Black Stone Town's filthiest alleys, fighting stray dogs for scraps—the bastard grandson nobody wanted, cast out by his warlord family. When a desperate grave robbery turns bloody, something awakens in his veins: golden sand flowing through his fingers, the dormant power of his mother's desert nomad bloodline. What his noble relatives saw as shameful mixed blood is actually his ticket out of the gutter. In a world where bloodlines determine destiny, this gutter rat is about to rewrite the rules.