Star Pupil, Martial Radiance

On the night the heavens split and meteors rained down, Lu Xuanzhou lost his parents and his village. All he had left was a baby he'd found, held in his arms. He rose from the mud and entered the world of immortal cultivation, where he saw the age-old chasm between Radiant-Bone cultivators and ordinary people: sects treated stellar power as private property, while cultivators treated commoners like livestock. He met Su Qingxian, who used Ice Radiance to save lives; Shen Zhao, who fought starbeasts with a rusty sword; and Wen Zhaoli, who kept tending the alchemy furnace, one step at a time... Six boys without Radiance set out from a small village beneath Qingyun Mountain, journeying through the Central Province, the Western Frontier, the Northern Lands, and the Eastern Wilds. Atop the Peak of Shattered Stars, Lu Xuanzhou toppled the stone tablet erected by the founding lord of the Divine Court, which proclaimed, "The Divine Court is orthodox; Radiant Bones are Heaven's gift." Then he wrote six words in the void: "All mortals can cultivate the Dao."

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