The Last Embers of a Spark

The advanced civilization known as the Supreme Heavenly Domain calls itself the shepherd of order. Using the Fateweaver, it spins an invisible web to monitor and forcibly correct the paths of fate in lesser worlds, treating every deviation as an anomaly to be erased. The Mortal Realm struggles to survive beneath these shackles of fate. Its history is edited, and its resistance crushed.

According to buried legends, a brilliant Spark civilization once existed. It pursued the resonance between souls and the energy of the universe, known as the Spirit Nexus, and revered free evolution. Its fall began with the betrayal of its allies, the ancestors of the Shepherds. The Spirit Nexus technology was stolen and twisted into tools of control: the Fateweaver and the Starlock Chains. The civilization was buried beneath layers of forgetting.

When Lin Jin was at death's door during a pilgrimage, his blood accidentally activated the long-buried core of the Spark Spirit Nexus. Yet Ling Zhao, the Shepherd Inquisitor hunting him and the merciless embodiment of order, bore a lost Spark sigil branded behind his ear.

Lin Jin rises from the ashes, carrying the Spark legacy. He seeks out relics and gathers kindling within the cage of fate. An epic of shackles and liberation, forgetting and remembrance, begins: will he accept the path imposed upon him, or reclaim his freedom and ignite the fire of civilization's rebirth? Fate lies in the heart. The Spark burns anew.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.