His entire clan was slaughtered, and his spiritual meridians were stolen. The Xiao clan's blood stained the broken monument in the Ashen Bone Abyss. Twenty years ago, Xiao Jin was a small child hiding in a pile of corpses. Twenty years later, under the alias Shen Jin, he is an avenger lying low in a land of resentful spirits.
He cultivates the Ashen Spirit Path: tempering his bones with thoughts of vengeance for his clan, forming meridians through worldly power, and using the blood-debt resonance he feels when killing an enemy as the finest pill for breaking through to a new realm.
Concealing his edge in Yongjing, he is a low-key cultivator among the humble-born faction, a capable official under the Marquis of Jingyuan, and a
