What Lies Beyond Superpowers?

I am Yan Yixiao, thirty-six years old, and sinking into the quagmire of reality. Unemployed and in debt, trapped in a difficult marriage, with the scars of childhood buried deep in my heart, I have spent half my life trying to make peace with myself and heal.

The Golden Light Temple on the Qinling Mountains suffers a catastrophe. The Five Elements Spirit Stones are stolen and spiritual energy spills out. By chance, I awaken spatial powers that are nearly off the charts.

Armed with a superpower found only once in a thousand years, I don't choose to get rich and turn my life around. I am still content to make an honest living as a delivery porter. But the secrets of the Daoist sect, sealed away for centuries, and the grudges entangling generations of Celestial Masters drag me into a maelstrom of conflict.

There are no one-dimensional heroes and villains here. Those who walk beside me are all ordinary people bearing their own scars: a food delivery rider, a middle-aged programmer, twin sisters with very different personalities, a washed-up livestream sales host, a prodigy who dropped out of school, a cool and domineering female CEO, and a rich heiress whose glamorous exterior hides a tragic fate. Even most of our opponents are trapped by debts of gratitude, regrets, and obsessions with what they cannot have. They were not born cruel and evil.

When slaughter becomes the easiest solution, I, having endured my share of suffering, choose to hold on to the goodness in my heart.

Daoist magic and supernatural powers are merely the wrapping. This is not a tale of an invincible hero, but a struggle by ordinary people against fate, power, and regret. Every named character in this book is a fully realized person of flesh and blood.

But when the twists arrive, I finally learn that the real world is actually so... Everything was destined, and everything is beyond belief.