Born Without Innate

Chaos shrouded the ancient land, and all races struggled to survive in darkness. Jiang Ju, a youth from the Suiren clan, was the only 'innate waste' in the entire clan—lacking any cultivation talent, unable even to suppress his own shadow. When the demon tide besieged the city, the clan elders decided to sacrifice him to awaken the Dao seal left by the ancestral Flame Emperor. The Dao fire burned his body, a certain death. Yet he was reborn from the flames—his heart bore innate Dao patterns, and within him slept a power even he did not know. The Flame Emperor's Dao seal recognized him as its master, and memories flooded his mind: the ancient evil 'Candle Dragon' that destroyed the Suiming Kingdom was about to awaken, and all of humanity was but ants on the chessboard of the gods. From sacrifice to god-slayer, from the rift valley to the nine heavens—a youth without innate power, yet determined to prove the only eternal Dao with a mortal body. [This story is purely fictional; any resemblance is coincidental.]