Sold as a Sea Sacrifice, I Raised All Things into Gods

At sixteen, Ning Zhaowei was sold by her clan and sent aboard a lantern boat, where she became a “Bone-Illuminating Maiden,” tasked with luring water ghosts away from wealthy families. Of ten lantern boats, nine never returned. Before her boat sank, she touched a dying clump of lantern-core algae. Suddenly, a line of text appeared before her eyes: 【By cultivating lantern-core algae, it can evolve into purifying spirit-lantern algae.】 From then on, crippled-wing tide swallows evolved into weather-commanding darkbirds, pale-sleeping worms evolved into world-weaving spirit silkworms, and tiny mudflat clams evolved into floating-harbor mirage shells. While others hunted demons for treasure, she sought out the weak little creatures no one else wanted. Later, the great clans pressured her to hand over her businesses, the sects demanded her spirit beasts, and the imperial court tried to seize the cities she had built. Standing above a sea of lanterns stretching ten thousand miles, Ning Zhaowei calmly said: “What you want isn’t my property.” “It’s the peace I raised for you.”