Don’t Let It Bloom

The Desolate Tide Continent has no ground. What looks like solid earth is actually an abyss that devours all living things. Anyone who steps onto it never even leaves a corpse behind. Humans live in trees, turning them into cities and kingdoms. For a thousand years, every martial artist has been obsessed with the same legend: at the heart of the continent stands a colossal tree that reaches the heavens. Those who reach its summit will be welcomed by immortals and ascend to immortality in broad daylight. Lin Zhao, a boy who scavenges along the edge of the abyss, swallows a seed his father risked his life to bring back, warning him, “Don’t let it bloom.” Many years later, standing above a sea of treetops, he watches a beam of light descend from the sky to harvest, and finally understands what those words truly meant: The fruit of this age is ripe. And he has no intention of being harvested.