From the Start, I Get a Broken Box, Then Awaken the Shrine of All Forms

The Heavenly Mandate Ranking determines the fate of all living beings. Destiny, spiritual roots, artifact affinity, and battle potential: one ranking decides a person's worth.

Shen Jin transmigrates and becomes a useless concubine-born son of the Shen family, recently deceased. At the age of seventeen, during the ceremony for distributing treasures, the Heavenly Mandate Ranking assigns him an Ashen Fate, leaving him with the last item, a broken, rankless black box nobody wants. Everyone laughs that his fate is sealed, but no one knows an ancient divine relic sleeps inside: the Shrine of Ten Thousand Aspects.

The shrine's artifact spirit, A Zhu, awakens. Sharp-tongued, greedy, and perpetually disdainful, she can see the flaws in all things. Shen Jin also awakens the