Ashes of Fate

At the age of sixteen, during the Divine Sword Festival, Jin Jiuchuan awakened the dormant Ji Jin, making it recognize him as its master and turning himself into a target for the Heavenly Realm's assassination. On the night of his family's massacre, 123 lives were reduced to white flames. He escaped with the shattered sword bone embedded in his body. From then on, the young master of the Jin family ceased to exist, replaced by a boy named A Ling and a scythe waiting to collect nine fragments. From the forbidden lands of the Witch Clan to the burial grounds of the Western Desert, from the Heavenly Realm's Prison of Gods to the gates of life and death in the Netherworld, he journeyed westward, gathering fragments one by one. With each piece recovered, he drifted further from humanity. The traitor among the twelve Witch Gods sat on the throne of the Heavenly Realm, waiting for him to walk into the trap. But they had waited ten thousand years—not for prey, but for judgment. When the nine fragments reunite, the true name of the Nine Abyss Eternal Night Scythe will emerge in the Eye of Judgment. Open eyes decree life; closed eyes proclaim annihilation. He came not for revenge—but to reclaim the strike owed ten thousand years ago.