Theft of Heaven: Strange Tales of the Thirteenth Husk

The path to ascension, celebrated throughout the cultivation world, is actually a breeding ground run by a higher civilization. When the livid patches on Lu Guichen's left arm begin predicting his death, Bai Cangfeng's sword bones reveal a coded message of rebellion, and Yin Jiuzhu digs his three-hundredth corpse out of the bottom of a blood pool, they discover the truth: cultivation is nothing more than a process of parasitism by Dao worms. The three abandoned pawns join forces to tear away the cultivation world's disguise. Deep in the starry reaches, twelve colossal corpses are lowering their threads to harvest, while a crack appears in the cocoon of the thirteenth abandoned husk...