Myriad Insect Bloodline: A Village Boy's Search for His Family

In the final years of the Great Eastern Dynasty, the borderlands are in chaos and the realm is in turmoil. Fifteen-year-old Lin Ye has struggled to survive in a mountain village since childhood. His parents went into the mountains in search of insect-path ruins, where they were seized by black-robed heretics. They vanished without a trace, leaving him only an insect-patterned jade pendant and endless longing. Living under someone else’s roof, enduring the cold stares and bullying of his neighbors, he thought he would be trapped for life in this impoverished backwater. A flash flood caves in an ancient grotto. At the brink of death, the Myriad Transformations Insect Bloodline sleeping within him finally awakens. No System. No powerful master appearing out of nowhere. He survives by copying the talents of all living things: self-healing, stealth, poisoncraft, tracking, and the brute strength of ferocious beasts. He can learn them all. But every new power comes at a cost, burning his flesh and aching his bones. Strength never comes from nothing. He steps into the martial world, not to dominate the heavens or seek immortality. He only wants to clear away the layers of mystery, find his missing parents, and protect those he holds dear. The sects watch him like predators. The black-robed conspirators weave plot after plot. Secret realms are riddled with deadly traps. Armed with the insect path, the youth crosses a thousand mountains and ten thousand dangers, carving out a hard road home in search of his family amid the chaos.