> **At his coming-of-age ceremony, his blood splattered across the bloodline-testing stone, making him a laughingstock to his entire clan.**
> Xiao Jin, the weakest bloodline the Xiao family had seen in a century.
> When his cousin stole his spiritual root, she sneered, “A worthless wretch from the mud thinks he deserves to share my name?”
> No one knew
> The blood seeping from his palm into the cracks in the stone was awakening the Heaven-Burning Ancestral Bones sleeping underground!
> **When an enemy’s blade was at his father’s throat,**
> **gray-white flames sprang from his fingertips, draining the bloodlines of a hundred cultivators.**
> “The Xiao family’s debts will be repaid in blood and fire!”
> At the bottom of the Bone-Burying Abyss, he forged the bones of countless beasts into his own;
> In the Prodigy Hunting Grounds, a flame-pattern bloomed on his brow like a demon’s;
> At the summit of the Nine Heavens, he tore out his bones to make a banner and burned the sky
> Only then did the world realize:
> **The so-called “crippled bloodline” was the perfect fuel for the flame that would slay the gods!**
