In this world, anyone can grow extraordinary bones inside their body. Ordinary bones are base, spirit bones are exceptional, and heavenly bones reign supreme. Divine abilities are etched onto the bones, allowing their owners to summon wind and thunder, command water and fire, and suppress evil spirits. Those who possess extraordinary bones are collectively known as Ability Wielders, and are born superior to others. The upper sects monopolize resources, and a system of rules divides people into ranks and classes.
Lin Ye was born into the Lin family, cursed for a thousand years. At the clan's awakening ceremony, he unexpectedly awakened a heavenly-grade extraordinary bone, but the bloodline curse flared up on the spot, causing its grade to plummet. His elders exhausted the clan's accumulated resources to suppress the curse and preserve a near-heavenly-grade bone, but it would last only two years. When the curse erupted two years later, his heavenly-grade bone would shatter, and all his talent would vanish.
As if that weren't enough, the senior disciple the Lin family had poured all its resources into training joined a powerful sect beyond the domain after completing his studies. He then turned on his former masters, using his new backing to humiliate them in public. Lin Ye races against time to cultivate and find a way to break the curse, all while dealing with the provocations, recruitment attempts, and underhanded schemes of the great sects and aristocratic families. Some want to seize this rare heavenly bone, some want to destroy it, and others watch from the shadows.
Along the way, he meets Su Wan, a girl whose fate is just as much beyond her control. A fallen ancient clan's gifted young woman with a limited time to shine, and a pawn of a great sect with no say in her own fate: their paths sometimes draw close and sometimes diverge, while the chasm between their social classes stands between them, making every choice a dilemma.
People say Ability Wielders should stand above everyone else because they possess power. Lin Ye is determined to prove, little by little, that supernatural abilities have never been a sin. The real sinners are those who use their strength to bully the weak.
