Mysterious Bones Subdue the Dragon

Novel Synopsis

On a night when the frozen river cracked, Lu Zhaoming, an inn hand, turned his left pupil silver and froze three hundred miles of river with a single palm strike.

A blood-soaked case linked to a remnant jade in a swaddling cloth, a spirit-devouring Gu emerging from an ice sculpture in an underground palace, puppet strings hidden in the sleeve of a female cultivator from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion...

The truth behind the destruction of the Xuanyuan Pavilion seventeen years ago was hidden in the strange object buried deep within the boy's spine, known as the Nine Luminaries Profound Bone.

Only when the swordlight of immortals fighting illuminated the walls of Cold River City did Lu Zhaoming realize he had become bait in someone else's game.

The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion used its Skywatch Envoys as pieces on a board, burying Dragon-Subduing Nails inscribed with the words “Divine Shepherd” in the dragon veins. The Jade Pivot Hall tampered with cause and effect using an hourglass of time, turning three hundred years of heavenly tribulations into a prison designed to slaughter all living beings. Even the demon dragon that broke its chains beneath the sea had the same mad blood in its eyes as he did.

At the Mirage Ghost Market, he pawned three days of his memories. At the foot of the Fallen Immortal Cliff, he saw the sword scars from his past life.

When Lu Zhaoming tore away Mu Qingxuan's puppet disguise, and when Baili Jinghong's Water-Cutting Sword pierced the lies of the immortal realm,

only as the Nine Luminaries Profound Bone seared through the clouds did he understand what the ten thousand bronze lamps beneath Cold River meant:

Mortals feed dragons, immortals and gods feed the Dao, and he would make a sword of his spine to cleave open this world-devouring scheme that had endured for a thousand lifetimes.