I Devour Heaven Chosen

He has died twice. He stopped panicking after the first. Xie Yan — former terror of a hundred years, destroyer of saints, architect of his own catastrophic end — wakes up in the wrong body at the worst possible moment. The man whose skin he now wears has three days before expulsion, enemies already sharpening their knives, and a master who stopped believing in him long ago. Worse, somewhere out there, a golden boy blessed with Heaven's own favor is walking toward a destiny that ends with Xie Yan's head on a pike. But Heaven forgot one thing. The Hunger Codex — a parasitic system older than the gods that govern this world — has rebooted. And it is hungry. Every hero Heaven sends against him can be broken. Every fortune Heaven gifts to its chosen can be stolen. Every destiny written to destroy him can be devoured. Xie Yan knows exactly how this game is played. He invented the rules. What he did not plan for are nine volatile, dangerous disciples who refuse to stay assets. A master whose silence costs him more than any enemy's blade. And a creeping, catastrophic suspicion that the system feeding him power has been feeding on him all along. The heavens keep writing heroes. He keeps devouring them. The only question is which one of them runs out first. In a world scripted by fate, Xie Yan is the only unwritten line.