Bloodbinder's Ascent
Xianxia · Dark Xianxia
In the ash-choked slums of Sootfall, a starving orphan named Sera presses her bleeding palms to a dying dog's wound — and shatters a two-hundred-year-old seal, awakening the Red Covenant, the one cultivation art the Nine Luminaries Court burned from history. Now the revered White Antler Sect is hunting her, not to destroy the art, but to *farm* it — and Sera discovers the technique's terrible price: every drop of stolen blood makes her stronger and numbs her ability to feel the pain of others, the very gift that made her a healer. To rise from gutter-orphan to ascendant, she must answer the question that destroyed the art's founder: is power what you take, or what you're willing to be given?
Chosen OneForbidden Power68,797 words
