Not Borrowing from Heaven

During the opening ceremony at the age of sixteen, Shen Li failed to induce breath nine times and was judged to have the ultimate pulse. At the same time, his father, who had been missing for five years, was posthumously found to owe a huge debt. The Shen family's ancestral mine and foundry will be taken away in a hundred days. Practitioners in the world all borrow power from heaven and earth. The higher the realm, the heavier the debt owed to heaven. Only Shen Li, who could not sense the breath of heaven, ignited his own fire deep in the ancestral mine, used flesh and blood as the furnace and will as the hammer, and found a path of cultivation that did not borrow from heaven. From a boy in a border town to a pioneer in the heavens, he not only has to find out the truth behind his father's disappearance and debt to heaven, but he also has to face a question: If power must be repaid with fate and freedom, is such a heaven worth borrowing by all living beings?