Drafted to a broken Xianxia

Having nothing left to live for, Huang Ke stood at the edge of the world, ready to end it all. But just as despair took hold, the skies parted — and from the clouds descended a cultivator, offering him salvation.

A new life.

A higher realm.

A path into the cultivation world — a vast expanse of richness and opportunity.

Or so he was told.

What awaited Huang Ke was not glory, but chains. Bound by a soul contract, stripped of freedom, he is cast into a dying realm ruled by corrupt immortal clans — the crumbling remnants of Heaven, now feeding on the lower worlds to survive. There, Huang Ke learns the cruel truth: he is one of thousands of drafted slaves, chosen not for greatness, but for a body cursed to endure — to mine spirit stones until death or madness.

Yet, when Heaven closes one path… another opens.

The world is changing.

Reality is weakening.

And from that wound pours knowledge — machines, minds, and the spark of a new era.

In the twilight of the old era, as empires fade and ancient powers grow desperate, Huang Ke must carve his own path a future no clan can control.