Before Dawn

The year Li Xuantong turned seventeen, he saw the truth about the world. Cultivators who guarded the hidden realms lived among ordinary people. Strange creatures lurked in the shadows, ready to stir, while the world people depended on teetered on the brink of death. Li Xuantong himself had only three months left to live, along with a broken sword he had found in a dream. To stay alive, he ventured alone into the darkness shrouding the world, searching for the light that was supposed to be there.