Dust Bone Dao

In Donghuang Qingzhou, Lin Chen, a disciple of the Taixuan Sect, possesses the 'Nine-Orifice Exquisite Bone' and achieves Foundation Establishment at sixteen, hailed as a once-in-a-century genius. On the eve of the sect tournament, he is betrayed by elders and fellow disciples, his immortal bone cruelly extracted, his cultivation crippled, and he is cast into the outer sect labor yard to die. On the brink of death, Lin Chen stumbles upon an anonymous withered skeleton in a mass grave behind the labor yard. The remnant will within the skeleton resonates with him, imparting the long-lost 'Dust Bone Scripture'—a heaven-defying technique that does not rely on innate immortal bones but instead 'refines dust into bone' with a mortal body. From then on, Lin Chen hides in the labor yard, chopping wood and carrying water by day, enduring scorn and bullying; by night, he cultivates in the mass grave, using countless bones as a furnace to refine death qi, resentment, and earthly turbid qi, reshaping his own 'dust bone.' He takes in abandoned crippled disciples, disciples with shattered spiritual roots, and fugitives bearing blood feuds, quietly rebuilding a 'Dust Bone lineage' rejected by orthodoxy in the darkest corner of Taixuan Sect. When the sect nurtures a new prodigy with his 'Nine-Orifice Exquisite Bone' and the entire Qingzhou cultivation world believes Lin Chen has long turned to dust, the man who crawled back from a mountain of corpses and seas of bones, along with his disciples, begins to demand justice from a world that determines fate by 'bone.'