Crossing Ten Thousand Mountains

In this world, even the mountain beneath your hometown can be taken from you. The slopes of a colossal mountain can hold the lights of ten thousand homes. Above the sea of clouds, mountains rise beyond sight of their summits. People build cities on the mountains, cultivate by drawing on their power, and pass on everything they have learned to the generations that follow. Until someone seizes a mountain’s leyline and conducts a mountain-devouring rite. A distant main peak slowly rises. The rivers of your homeland change course, and the ferry crossing hangs above a sheer cliff. The roads your ancestors walked can never be joined again. To protect your mountain, you have to be stronger than those who would take it. Shen Yan came from the depths of the mountains, carrying a sliver of space within him, intending to cross ten thousand peaks. But the higher he climbed, the more he wanted to ask: Everyone borrows strength from the mountains, but what will they have to give back?