Tombstone of Heaven

In the final years of antiquity, the gates of heaven shattered, and the last patternless one was buried beyond the realm. Three thousand years ago, the first Heavenly Lord of the Nine Provinces ascended and never returned. For a millennium, the ninety-nine fate patterns have been seen as gifts from heaven; the more patterns one has, the greater their talent. Countless cultivators pursue the Dao, hoping to one day knock on the gates of heaven and step beyond the mortal world. But no one knows that those so-called ascendants never truly left. In Blackstone Town, the youth Gu Ye was born without patterns, the lowliest servant in the mines, called a 'wasted life' by all. Until one day, deep in an abandoned mine that had been sealed for ten years, he saw a broken stele that should never have reappeared in the world. The stele could seek ancient relics, devour Dao traces, and reflect past lives; within it lay a forbidden art incomplete for countless ages. From that day on, the abandoned mines, broken weapons, shattered bones, and desolate tombs that others saw as worthless became his fortune. Years later, when the ninety-nine-pattern prodigies stood before the gates of heaven and all cultivators looked up in reverence, Gu Ye finally saw clearly—the so-called fate patterns were never a glory bestowed by heaven. They were chains carved into the bodies of all living beings by this world. All mortals have fate. Only he has none. So this path, he will walk alone. — Description from novelcodex.org