Ascent of the Nameless

They called it Slagfield. A valley beneath the mountain, where broken jade, failed elixirs, discarded talismans, and everything the cultivators above no longer wanted were thrown away. The people who lived there were no different. Born among ash and poison, Ruin grows up knowing one simple truth: the world above does not consider him a person. He has no clan. No master. No inheritance. No talent anyone bothered to discover. Only a mind that refuses to accept the place the world gave him. When Ruin discovers that the waste discarded by the great sect above contains something far more valuable than anyone realized, he begins to uncover a path of cultivation unlike any other. But power is not the only thing waiting beneath the ashes. Every step upward demands a price. Every answer reveals a deeper question. And the higher Ruin climbs, the more he begins to understand that the world above was never as perfect as he was taught to believe. If Heaven refuses to look down... Then Ruin will make Heaven look.