Origin Of Shadows

Leo Yeager is sixteen years old boy born in a world where chi cultivation determines everything, he possesses no Dantian, no meridians, no power. Society has written him off as weak—a waste of life destined to die forgotten in the orphanage that raised him. But when A red gate open, it forces him into a death trial within a world abandon by the gods that one rule over it, Leo binds with a cursed artifact containing a murdered goddess's heart— gaining the ability to rule of shadows, Shadow powers that demand he build an army from the souls of those he kills. Then, bleeding and broken, he encounters an ancient Rune that rewrites his biology, granting him access to the Origin Chi—the unified power that existed before humanity fractured it into nine limited paths. Now wielding dual systems that shouldn't coexist and hunted by kingdoms, criminals, and divine forces alike, Leo must climb from absolute zero to the peak of cultivation.