The End of Yang

Heaven and earth are a ledger. The living borrow, the dead keep accounts. The moment you are born, your name is entered; the day you die, your account is closed.

When Shen Yan underwent the Shadow Reflection at eight, the stone cracked. The ledger showed two words: Pending Verification.

If he doesn't manifest a shadow by the age of sixteen, this page will be torn out. The world will act as if he never existed.

He has only eight years.

At fourteen, something burrowed into his dantian and began devouring his qi. Everyone in the clan said he was done for.

No one knows that he has scratched 730 charcoal marks into the wall.