Starsea of Origin and Ashes

In the heaps of rusty iron in the Eternal Silence Ruins, seventeen-year-old Ling Yue was once an ant at the mercy of others. His left hand was crushed, his parents were pushed into an energy rift by the Bone Wolf Gang, and all he had left was half a starship insignia and a dying scanner.

Then the black pillar in the forbidden zone awakened the Origin Core System. He forged source energy from his hatred and honed his edge amid the ruins: a rusted starship cannon became a star-splitting treasure, a damaged jade slip was restored to contain a god-slaying technique, and even his enemies' mecha cores became fuel for the System.

From a boy curled up in a narrow tunnel to a sovereign of source energy who overturns the order of the starry seas, he gathers more than wreckage: he finds the embers of a civilization from a hundred thousand years ago. The ferocity of one who crawled out of heaps of bloodstained rust will finally make the universe understand: those who gather light were never gathering it. They burn themselves to become a torch.