Relics Pave the Road to Immortality

Ten years after waking in a world of cultivation, Lin Shan finally discovers his extraordinary power – and turns his clan leader’s prized painting into dust. An orphan from a minor family branch, he has neither exceptional talent nor powerful backing. A mysterious panel now lets him absorb the hidden potency of ancient objects and spend it on stronger cultivation techniques, pills, weapons, and artifacts. The treasures of the past suddenly offer him a future beyond a lifetime of menial work. First, however, he has to hide what happened to that painting.

Beyond the family compound waits a world of assassins, forbidden cults, and cultivators with far more power than mercy. To keep improving, Lin Shan needs more ancient treasures – and the cunning to survive those who control them. Stronger equipment gives him an edge, not a guarantee. As resource hunts draw him into deadlier conflicts, he must learn when to bargain, when to retreat, and when to kill. His goal is no longer simply to escape obscurity, but to claim a life beyond mortal limits. Heaven has its prodigies. Lin Shan has other plans.