The Heavenly Dao’s Remains

A truth that everyone in the cultivation world believes without question goes like this: Follow Heaven’s will, and you will eventually ascend. Nineteen-year-old Lu Chenzhou isn’t so sure. He is the most obscure corpse cultivator in Qingya City, making his living by collecting the bodies of cultivators. Then one day, he uncovers a bizarre secret: every high-ranking cultivator who dies of old age is missing a tiny piece of bone from the back of their skull. Ancient texts make no mention of it. The sects keep it under tight wraps, while the Bureau of Celestial Observation is unusually sensitive about the matter. Stranger still, a Nascent Divinity corpse that should have lived for hundreds more years opened its eyes just before dying and said only three words to him: “Do not ascend.” As his investigation deepens, Lu Chenzhou discovers that the so-called spiritual energy may come from a colossal being that died millions of years ago; the so-called Great Dao is merely its surviving nervous system; and the so-called tribulation lightning is a reaction from a corpse that has yet to disappear. And the ascension every cultivator dreams of… May not be becoming an immortal at all. It may mean being devoured by “Heaven.” When the entire cultivation world is built on a secret that has endured for millions of years, the question Lu Chenzhou must face is no longer how to become the strongest under Heaven. It is something far greater: If one day you discover that the world itself is a corpse, will you keep cultivating? This time, what he must bury may not be the dead. It may be Heaven.