The Spirit Tide's Ashen Kin

Five hundred years after the spiritual tide ebbed, the cultivation world entered an age of famine. The third branch of the Li family was struck from the clan register and given a stretch of saline land downstream from Meichi River, where spiritual energy was at its thinnest. But they had a family genealogy that recorded how each generation of ancestors died. On its last page was a line of ancient writing: Once the spiritual tide has fully receded, a remnant vein lies beneath Meichi River. The way to draw it out is through resonance. Three people, three kinds of energy united as one, finding a way forward in an age when spiritual energy has run dry. From mortals to Foundation Establishment, from Foundation Establishment to Violet Palace, from Violet Palace to Golden Core. The third branch of the Li family will need five generations to walk this path. The spiritual tide is still ebbing. But not a single lamp along the banks of Meichi River has gone out.