The Mine Slave Who Hears the Cracks

In the demon mountains where fissures constantly split open, mine slaves are as expendable as firewood. Shen Li was supposed to die in the North Third Crevice, but the moment the overseer pushed him into the deadly crack, he heard the 'fractures' of everything in the world. He could hear when stone walls would shatter, when wooden beams would snap, when formation patterns would collapse, when weapons would break, and even the most fragile inch of a person's heart. Relying on this ability, he snatched his life back from the mine pit, seized a living ore core, and forcibly pried open the gates of the Mountain Repair Bureau. But he soon discovered that the mountains were not naturally splitting, the ores were not being mined casually, and even the lofty rules of the Mountain Repair Bureau were merely using the lives of the lower class to feed larger black accounts. From a mine slave to a repair bureau handyman, from breaking stones to breaking formations, situations, and human hearts. While others sacrifice their lives to fill the mountains, he follows every crack to pry out the deepest secrets of this mountain city layer by layer.