Threshold Bonefire

In 2077, a Great Rift had torn Blue Star apart for a century. Blight Beasts roamed the land, and humanity awakened their “Origin Bones” to absorb source energy and cultivate, becoming “Bone Wielders” who composed an epic tale of resistance to the apocalypse within six bastion cities.

But no one knew that the gift of Origin Bones was actually a parasitic seed planted by the higher-dimensional alien race known as the Celestial Veil. The pinnacle of martial cultivation was merely the line marking when livestock was ready for slaughter, and the so-called struggle against the apocalypse was nothing more than a carefully designed breeding ground for alien feed.

Lin Chen, a scavenger from the lowest rung of society, awakened the only Origin Bone in all humanity that could not be controlled as he lay dying in a Blight Zone. Its black bonefire could burn away every rule. He emerged from mountains of corpses, determined to uncover the truth behind his family's massacre fourteen years ago, only to gradually expose the shocking deception that had kept human civilization penned up for a century.

Along the way, he met Su Qingyuan, a cool and composed healer who could soothe his bonefire; Ye Jinghong, a shadow assassin lying in wait in the wilderness; and Bai Lingxi, a spirit-seeing prophet who glimpsed fate. He also found brothers in life and death in Jiang Che, a military strategist who could plan for every eventuality in Wen Jingran, a master forger with extraordinary skill in Mo Chen, and a genius rival who was both enemy and friend in Lu Zeyu.

When the whole world urged him to accept his fate, Lin Chen and his companions clenched their fists around the power in their hands. If the sky is a cage, then burn it down. If the rules are shackles, then shatter them.

This time, humanity will no longer be food.