The Sinner's Remains

(Plot-focused, a little angsty, satisfying revenge, cultivation, and battles)

Amid the ashes of Tieniu Village, the boy Xiao Lingyun picked up a bloodstained fragment of jade, becoming the tragedy’s only silent witness.

The scent of ink in the schoolmaster’s study could not erase the bloodstains. Then a spirit-infused strange stone awakened the cold mark that had lain dormant in his spine.

A forgotten legacy quietly stirred within the broken jade pendant.

The mist had yet to clear, and a web of secrets about his origins was quietly being woven. Was this body a prison that held him captive, or a vessel that could carry him to the other shore?

Was this spear a weapon of slaughter, or a spark of hope meant to protect?

The road ahead was shrouded in darkness. Perhaps only that faint glimmer within his bones could light the ground beneath his feet and reveal the unsolved mysteries.