Ordinary Bones: The Lampbearer

After the campus belle publicly breaks off their engagement and gets him expelled, Lu Chen returns to his grandfather's home in the countryside. In the dusty attic, he discovers an archaic-looking bronze oil lamp.

As he wipes it clean and recalls the humiliation he suffered that day, an invisible force gathers from all around him: the ridicule, contempt, and schadenfreude of everyone at the broken engagement!

These negative emotions turn into lamp oil, igniting the ancient lamp. From its faint flame, a heaven-defying cultivation technique called the Mortal Bone Lamp-Burning Art floods into his mind.

A sudden insight strikes Lu Chen. He sits cross-legged and cultivates by the lamplight. By morning, he is still an