Heir of the Ruined Relic

Something went wrong at the ruins. Cultivators can pull out, but the cleanup crew still has to go in and deal with the aftermath. Zhou Lichuan is a temporary laborer on one such cleanup crew. Hauling relics, clearing rubble, carrying out the wounded—work that could kill him at any moment. All he wants is to earn a little more money so things go a bit easier for his family's repair shop. Then, during a ruin-sealing mission, an evacuation order suddenly comes down—and there are still people trapped inside the sealed zone. Zhou Lichuan knows how dangerous it is, but in the end he turns back. To save them, he takes the constraints of an ancient law upon himself for the first time, and in doing so comes into contact with a special power called "Chenglyu." Only by personally bearing the cost of a law does one have a chance to borrow part of its power under specific conditions. But this power is not easy to master. One wrong move, and not only will he fail to save anyone—he may well throw his own life away. Zhou Lichuan barely makes it back alive, but the incident is quickly ruled an accident. He can never work out why, when there were clearly still people trapped, that evacuation order was given in such a hurry. And who gave the order? — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Heir of the Ruined Relic — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠