Starsea Embers: The Supreme Sword Immortal Faces a Dead End

Deep in the cosmos, a battered ship drifted through the darkness. When Chu Fan awoke, a talent selection appeared before him. He chose the highest tier: an SS-rank Sword Immortal. The next second, his talent began feeding on his life. There was no spiritual energy in space. Unable to absorb anything, the spiritual platform inside him started devouring his lifespan instead. The harder he fought to live, the faster he died. Ten days to live, a wreck of a ship, and darkness in every direction. Three hundred thousand people had been cast into this sea of stars. Some awakened as mechanics, able to repair ships and extend their lives. Others awakened as cultivators, able to produce food and oxygen. He had drawn the rarest talent of all, one that burned through his life with every breath. They say that drawing the highest rank from the start means you’re the protagonist. But this protagonist had to calculate the cost of every breath just to survive past the tenth day. Still, Chu Fan didn’t want to die. Not because he was especially strong, but because back on Earth, someone was staring at his name on a screen, waiting for a call that would never come. He had to get back. Even if this sea of stars had put a price on every life. Even if the deeper he went, the more he realized that what pursued him wasn’t a single enemy, but the entire sky. Cultivation is all about defying Heaven and changing your fate. So he would start by changing this heavenly law that was eating away at his life.