Azure Veined Realm

This world has no spiritual energy, only patterns. Mountains and rivers, plants and minerals, people’s bloodlines and souls: everything bears patterns. Those who copy patterns draw power from them. Lu Yansheng was born with what was deemed a “dead pattern,” and spent three years as a menial copying patterns. Until he discovered that although he couldn’t see the patterns on anything, he could see every pattern’s “flaws.” Broken patterns, short circuits, loose connections, hidden traps... An ancient rubbing everyone fought over looked to him like a burned-out motherboard; a sect’s legacy was a BIOS infected with malicious firmware; and the entire continent was an ancient motherboard, burned out and being repaired section by section with jumper wires. He doesn’t cultivate immortality. He fixes bugs. He doesn’t chase power. He mends what’s broken. Because every inch of this world that cracks is waiting for him to solder it back together with his own hands.