Nine Lives, One Burning Lamp

The path of immortality is vast and elusive. What wrong have ordinary people done? Cultivators in this world must kindle lamps of life within their sea of consciousness. When a lamp goes out, its owner dies. The most powerful cultivators send their lamps up to the Ninth Heaven, where they become the 360 celestial positions. They are exalted Star Lords, while the children of ordinary people are taken by the immortal sects as “spiritual tax” and used as firewood to keep the lamps burning. Lin Yue transmigrated here, hoping to earn a prestigious degree and let his widowed mother enjoy her remaining years in peace. But when the immortal sects used a fire-revealing mirror to expose the flame within his fate, he became one of the spiritual-tax youths who set out in droves and almost never returned.