True Name Codex from the Start: I Turned Over Heaven's Chessboard

On the Primordial Continent, everything has a True Name.

A True Name holds a person's entire essence: the flaws in their cultivation techniques, their weaknesses, and the course of their fate. Whoever knows a person's True Name holds the power of life and death over them.

Su Li, young lord of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, is the only person on the continent who can read True Names.

Everyone thinks he'll use this power to dominate one corner of the world. But when he uncovers the continent's first hidden truth, he discovers that the entire cultivation system is a fraud. The Heavenly Dao has long been corrupted, cultivators are nothing but crops waiting to be harvested, and the Mandate of Heaven Society, which maintains order, is merely a pack of watchdogs herding the harvest for those who reap it.

"So you choose to stay silent?"

Su Li closed the tome filled with the True Names of all living things and spoke to the heavens:

"Then I'll speak for you."

With the last princess of the Mu Xue clan, an outcast from Ghost Doctor Valley, a sword cultivator who sealed away his cultivation for ten years, and a celestial fox with only one tail, he began his war against the Heavenly Dao.

Halfway through the war, the Heavenly Dao realized something was wrong.

This human wasn't resisting the rules.

He was renaming all things.

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