Beyond the Rules

Beyond the Rules: While others absorb spiritual energy to form golden cores, Lin Fan is determined to become a "rule hacker" in the world of cultivation.

Born with a "Pure Dao Body," he cannot absorb even a trace of spiritual energy, yet he can see through the underlying logic governing heaven and earth. He crushes golden cores with the "Crushing Stone Rule," flies through the air using "Aerodynamic Analysis," and can even use the power of rules to blow Foundation Establishment cultivators away with ordinary gunpowder.

No one knows that he keeps a broken jade slip hidden away. It contains not only a talkative remnant soul that forces him to collect rule fragments, but also a horrifying truth: so-called "ascension" is nothing more than a high-dimensional harvester gathering food, while the depletion of spiritual energy is actually the world sealing itself to survive.

From a menial disciple at the brink of bankruptcy in the Qingyun Sect to the "Child of Rules" stirring up turmoil across Zhongzhou, he leads a group of elderly, weak, and disabled fighters against the Bloodshadow Sect's Spirit Devouring Furnace, exposes the false benevolence of the Ziyang Immortal Mansion, and joins forces with the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Clan to achieve symbiosis through rules. He even has to wager his life against his inner demon.

When the ascension passage becomes a dining table for the harvesters, and the Pure Dao Body becomes the only key to closing that passage, Lin Fan must pit mortal ingenuity against high-dimensional rules. After all, the true way to defy heaven is to rewrite the world's rules of the game with your own hands.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.