Path Through the Ashen Ruins

Black Ashes engulf the world, and the heavens and earth are broken.

In this wasteland, immortality has never existed, and there is no heaven-defying golden finger. Four merciless laws of the Heavenly Dao bind the fate of all living beings: lifespans run out, stealing the Dao brings backlash, transactions cannot be reversed, and violating the Dao destroys both body and soul.

Cultivation has never been about riding the winds to ascend to immortality. It means bearing regret in one's own flesh. Every step forward leaves behind a Dao wound that will never heal.

Shen Mo, a commoner from the bottom of society, was born in the Turbid Ruins, fated to bear the world's imbalance. As he struggles through a chaotic age, he encounters Yun Shu, who loses her memories every day and hides secrets of the Heavenly Dao.

Their souls share the same origin, and their lives are bound together.

He bears the suffering of the flesh in this world, while she carries the sorrow of souls across the ages. Their bond cuts to the bone, and every step forward or back brings grief. Feuds between sects, disasters wrought by other races, and deadly struggles between good and evil come one after another. Everyone laments that the Heavenly Dao has fallen into ruin, but only those who walk the Dao know that the world's suffering has another cause.

There is no shortcut to repairing the ruins, and attaining the Dao always leaves regrets.

If repairing the heavens requires abandoning one's true heart and letting go of those one loves, then amid all this devastation, what is the true righteous path?

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