Star-Sundered Sword Soul: Oath Without a Blade
Lin Ye, an abandoned disciple of the Qingyun Sect, had his bones carved out and his blood drained from childhood, becoming the sect’s “perfect vessel” for resurrecting the ancient Torch Dragon.
When an ancient sword in the Sword Mound devoured its master and awakened his bloodline, he discovered that he was a pawn in the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s three-hundred-year scheme:
The nine bronze coffins were not suppressing a heavenly demon, but the “light of righteousness” worshiped for a thousand years by the cultivation world.
The gear-shaped suture marks around the neck of Ming Yue, the girl from the medicine hut, concealed the truth behind the tearing apart of twin souls.
And his most trusted master, Qing Shuang, was recording each of his deaths in a reincarnation algorithm called “Star Prison”...
He would shatter the Nether Sea and point his sword at the Return to Ruins.
Amid a siege by his clones, Lin Ye glimpsed a shocking conspiracy:
Cultivators’ flesh and blood were code, the sects’ glory was a lie,
and even the Torchlight Sword, said to slay gods and demons, was merely the key to an experiment restarting the first civilization.
When the nine stars aligned and illuminated the prophecy on the bronze coffins,
when mechanical bats and sword arts resonated within streams of data,
he chose the plainest wooden sword to sever the chain of godhood:
**“The sharpest blade in the world is the courage to embrace the ordinary.”**
This is a clash between flesh and gears,
and humanity’s ultimate escape from the prison of fate.
