Nine Stolen Meridians Beneath My Skin

von Jeff Kindred

174 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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THE HEAVENS DO NOT BESTOW IMMORTALITY. THEY HARVEST IT.Deep beneath the floating peaks of Mount Cangxuan, discarded corpses of fallen cultivators rot in sunless subterranean pits. Among the bone-slag and rancid dross crawls Jiang Lin-a mortal with a shattered Dantian, condemned to strip crystallized marrow from putrefying immortals just to survive the brutal quotas of the citadel's overseers. His life is measured in soul-stones, and execution is only a single whip-strike away.Until he unearths the forbidden Sutras of the Flayed Crucible.Armed with carved bone needles, caustic lye, and silver thread, Jiang Lin performs raw surgical self-mutilation: stitching preserved divine thoracic vessels directly into his living meat. Each graft triggers a waking nightmare of neuro-rejection and howling psychic echoes, yet each agonizing suture grants him what Heaven denied: crushing physical density powered by pure corpse-Qi.Masking his necrotic power behind foundational sword stances, Jiang Lin attracts the attention of Disciplinary Elder Vernon Sanders. Elevated from the charnel pits to the Outer Sect under the registered alias Julian Dawson, Jiang Lin enters a world of soaring jade pavilions and aristocratic prodigies. Yet behind Elder Sanders's grandfatherly smile and the cloying incense of the upper terraces lies a revelation that shatters his sanity: the scavenged divine cadavers are not ancient heretics. They are the butchered remnants of his own mortal clan, slaughtered decades ago by the very master who now calls him apprentice.Worse still, his miraculous rise was never an accident.Sect Master Raymond West's three-thousand-year-old soul is rotting from heavenly tribulation decay, and Jiang Lin's stitched, necrotic anatomy has been engineered from the start to serve as West's immortal replacement vessel. Simultaneously, the celebrated pinnacle of cultivation-the Ascension Rite-is unmasked as an cosmic slaughterhouse: the golden cores of the sect's finest disciples are not ascending to a higher realm, but being catapulted as tribute into the hollow moon to feed a slumbering, star-devouring cosmic parasite.From mortal borderlands ravaged by an apocalyptic shadow-horde born of his own suppressed trauma to the blood-stained altars of Cangxuan Peak, Jiang Lin finds himself encircled by celestial butchers. Caught between a parasitic god in the sky and an immortal parasite stealing his flesh, he has only one move left: push the forbidden sutures beyond the breaking point.A masterclass in dark xianxia, visceral body horror, and cosmic dread, Nine Stolen Meridians Beneath My Skin delivers an electrifying journey of survival and wrath. Prepare to witness what happens when a mortal refuses to be livestock-and carves a Tenth Meridian out of sheer, unbridled spite.

• Themen: Belletristik Action- / Abenteuerromane
• ISBN: 9798330318520
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Jeffkindred