[Higher Dimensions as Gods × Dark Fantasy × Growth-Oriented Protagonist × Not a Power Fantasy, Not Invincible]
My name is Chen Xuan. I'm a lowly nobody from the Lower City, paying off my debts by keeping night watch at a funeral home.
On a rainy night, the “corpse” in freezer number three suddenly sprang up, its fingernails black as knives!
A secret experiment by the Su conglomerate had turned the dead into bloodthirsty monsters.
As I fled, the tattered book and compass my grandfather left behind somehow summoned heavenly thunder.
A dead branch dipped in rainwater traced a mark on my palm, summoning a bolt of lightning that blasted the evil corpse apart!
This wasn't luck. It was the beginning of my awakening.
The bloodline of the “Heaven-Chosen Oddity” flows through my veins. I'm destined to prove the Way through the Five Elements and wield the Eight Trigrams art that seals the heavens!
But the Oddities of the Middle City and the puppets of the Lower City have long since become pawns of the higher-dimensional civilization in the Upper City. They use “spiritual energy Oddities” to construct a rigidly tiered cage, treating the people of the Lower City like lambs in an experimental lab.
And in their eyes, I became a “spark” that had to be snuffed out.
The lightning in my palm scorches my flesh, while the enemy's pursuit never lets up. A mysterious paper figure on Antique Street, a bronze fragment at the auction house, the Blood Array that Locks the Dragon at the Zhao residence...
Every step brings me to the brink of life and death.
I have to decipher the surviving fragments of River Luo Miscellany and tear open the sky, shackled by higher-dimensional laws, while caught between the conglomerate's shadow and the Oddities hunting me down!
Overthrow the divine order?
First, make it out alive from this sea of corpses and blood!
When the ancient array beneath the fountain pool awakens, I know the war of the Heaven-Chosen Oddities
has only just kindled its first spark...
New setting, another way of thinking about cultivation, and the growth-oriented protagonist is very representative. It's a good urban martial arts cultivation novel.