Dreams of Immortality in the Cloud Wilderness

Traditional fantasy · Coming-of-age · An ordinary man rises · Schemes and strategic battles

Lin Mang drops dead at his desk at three in the morning. When he wakes, an embroidered boot is planted on his chest. His ribs are broken, and blood has soaked the jade pendant. He is in the Desolate Mystic Continent, outside the Yun Clan ancestral hall in Luoyun Town. The original owner of this body was a good-for-nothing born with stone meridians, destined to die before turning sixteen. He was just trampled to death, and Lin Mang has taken over his dying body.

His spirit meridians are hard as stone, and his cultivation techniques are incomplete scraps. His only hope of staying alive is the logic etched into his bones in his previous life. When everyone else gives up on him, he uses algorithms to map out his meridians, strategy to outmaneuver the powerful, and business savvy to break monopolies, carving out a path no one can understand in this brutal world where the strong prey on the weak.

From the stone streets of Luoyun Town to the Cangxuan ruins at the bottom of the Desolate Meteor Abyss, from the unification wars among the eighteen nations of the Lower Three Domains to the power struggles of the six imperial dynasties in the Upper Three Domains, from the first raising of the Desolate Heaven Alliance's banner in Que Li Country to the seal gates of the Starsea Realm and Great Luo Heaven being opened one by one, he has been a good-for-nothing with stone meridians, a dying man, the leader of the Desolate Heaven Alliance, the lord of the continent, an ascendant, and one who transcended the mortal realm.

It all began on the night the crescent-shaped jade pendant was soaked in blood.

This is an epic coming-of-age tale of an ordinary man who becomes a legend. A boy left to die beneath the stone streets ultimately becomes a name this world will remember for a thousand years.