A night of rain and a blue lantern dragged Su Yan into the ghost market. There, he traded for the "joy of seeking knowledge" and received a mysterious "Heart Ember" in return. It was no spark of the traditional path to immortality, but a forbidden key leading to the source of "the annihilation of all things."
Linyuan City had become an altar. Beneath the mass grave on West Mountain, the "Netherworld Aperture" was opening. Ghostly blue mists devoured all living things, and an ancient seal teetered on the brink of shattering. With no hope of cultivating immortality, Su Yan carried the "Heart Ember" and a tattered formation diagram, becoming the only unpredictable variable in this dead city.
When orthodox immortal arts became a trap that turned practitioners into "kindling," and "lighting the lamp" meant "burning myself," he chose to walk the hopeless path that the gray-robed man had warned him against with his life: taking "silence" as his essence and "embers" as his means, turning his gaze inward, and kindling the first glimmer of heartlight that belonged to him amid the ashes of annihilation.
"This path is doomed, doomed! But I cannot accept it... Those who come after me, do not repeat my mistake..." Faced with the dying words of a madman who had entered seated death, Su Yan's answer was to grip the lightning-struck wooden sword in his hand and step into the ghostly blue mists that devoured everything.
"I do not know what lies at the end of the Great Dao, but the one walking here now and answering these three questions is Su Yan. I am my own path. I am my own lamp."
Not bad, very creative
Very nice, recommended