The Stele That Subdues Heaven in the Nine Wastes

Jiang Xuan was born with an unlit life-lamp, and his entire clan branded him a “fate-less good-for-nothing.”

At the clan ceremony when he was sixteen, his fiancée publicly broke off their engagement, a clan elder stole his cultivation spot, and his father was framed and thrown into prison.

In this desperate moment, he awakened a ruined stele in the ancestral shrine with his blood. Only then did he learn that he wasn’t without a fate: his fate was simply too immense for an ordinary lamp to illuminate.

From then on, the young man carried a destiny that could bury the heavens and wielded an ancient stele that could subdue them. He fought his way from a remote border town into the sacred grounds of the imperial dynasty, then onto the ancient road of the myriad races, and finally ascended to the Ninth Heaven, where he asked the gods and emperors:

“You said I had no fate. Now that I’ve subdued the heavens, does that count as having one?”