Redeeming the Broken Stars.
Kaelen Ashwright was born blessed, marked by the Convergence Star and prophesied to ascend to godhood.
They lied. At nineteen, he discovered the truth: the Star wasn't a blessing but a beacon, calling to the Devourers, cosmic horrors that feast on divine essence.
Every hundred generations, the Celestial Elders sacrifice one "blessed" soul to buy another century of peace.
His father led the ritual. His mentor bound him to the altar. His betrothed drove the blade into his heart.
As the Devourers consumed him, Kaelen's last thought was hatred. He wakes as Zain, a crippled street rat with shattered meridians.
But Kaelen's soul carries fragments of the Convergence Star, and if he cultivates in this body, the Devourers won't sense him.
Using forbidden methods that consume his enemies' essence, Kaelen climbs through the Nine Heavens with an unlikely team: Ryn, a demon-blooded assassin; Kael, a failed cultivator turned weapon merchant; Lyssa, a scholar investigating missing "blessed" children.
Together they uncover the conspiracy: The Elders aren't protecting humanity from the Devourers.
They're farming it for them. As Kaelen grows stronger, he begins to uncover a lot of mysteries, a lot of hidden mysteries in the realm, like Celestia being reborn alongside him seven times, forced to kill him again and again.
Now Kaelen faces an impossible choice: complete his revenge and doom his mother forever, save the Nine Heavens and let his family go unpunished, or break the cycle and face the Primordial Void, which has been manipulating everyone since the beginning.
What will a cultivator reincarnated in the body of a cripple do?
Find out in this awesome fantasy story titled, Redeeming the Broken Star.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 20: MOTHS DON'T FLY."I want you to carry a message," Old Moth continued. "To Regent Voss, to the Mortal Coil Authority, to whoever in the formation cartel currently has an interest in this end of the district.”“The boy in my room is my student. He is under my protection.”“Whatever debt he carried as Zain is discharged.”“Whatever interest the Celestial Inquisitors have in forbidden cultivation will need to wait until he has left this city, and by the time he leaves, he will be beyond their comfortable reach." She paused. "And if anyone else comes to this door, I will not be nearly this considerate." Old Moth immediately said as she stared at Dax with powerful precision, even though he was blind.Dax immediately looked at his fourteen incapacitated men. Looked at Old Moth. Looked at the door of the hovel, where Kaelen had appeared in the frame, leaning on the doorjamb, watching."You're going to regret this," Dax said, and it lacked the conviction it would have had fourteen men ago."I very rarely reg
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Chapter: CHAPTER 19: DAX, GO HOME.Dax smiled arrogantly into Blind old Moth's face as he continued.“There's no version of this that ends with you winning.""Mmm," Old Moth said. Then: "You've been managing things in this district for, how long? Twelve years?"The question threw Dax slightly off his rhythm. "Thirteen.""Thirteen years. And in thirteen years, you've come to my door four times.""We've had occasion…”"The first time was nine years ago, when you wanted information about a demon-blooded child who'd been seen near my end of the street. I told you I hadn't seen her. You chose not to press the matter."A very slight tension in Dax's expression. "I didn't press because there was nothing to press.""The second time was six years ago. You wanted me to vacate this space because someone with more money than me wanted it for a storage facility. I declined.”“You and four men attempted to convince me otherwise." Old Moth's voice was still pleasantly conversational."You left having convinced no one. You also left
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Chapter: CHAPTER 18: OPEN UP!The voice that answered was male, rough, carrying the particular flavor of authority that came not from earned respect but from enforced compliance."Open up, old woman. We know the dead boy is in there."Kaelen's hands, which had been resting on the table, went still.The dead boy.Old Moth opened the door.The man who filled the doorframe was large. Not cultivator-large, not the refined power of someone who'd spent years channeling spiritual energy into their physique. This was the large of someone who'd spent their life in labor and violence, thick-shouldered and heavy-handed, the kind of large that breaks things without precision or elegance. He wore the mark of an enforcer on his chest, a crude iron badge in the shape of a clenched fist, and behind him, visible in the narrow street beyond Old Moth's door, stood more men. Kaelen counted quickly. Fifteen. Possibly more beyond his line of sight.He recognized the badge. Zain's memories surfaced with unpleasant clarity. The Enfo
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Chapter: CHAPTER 17: THE ENFORCERS ARRIVAL.Three days passed in a rhythm that Kaelen would not have recognized as preparation if he hadn't been on the receiving end of it.Dawn brought Old Moth already seated at the table, the archaic scrolls open and the lantern lit, as if she'd been awake for hours or possibly hadn't slept at all.She would speak for an hour, dense and technical, covering aspects of the Essence Devouring technique that the manual's abbreviated text hadn't captured, the precise moment of contact at which absorption initiated, the way the practitioner's soul had to relax rather than grasp, the counterintuitive truth that fighting for the essence reduced efficiency while receiving it created better results."You're not taking it," she'd said on the first morning, when Kaelen had visualized the technique as a kind of aggressive reaching."You're making yourself available to it. The distinction matters more than you can currently imagine."Then came the physical work. Old Moth would have him practice the Soul Anc
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Chapter: CHAPTER. 16: NO WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED. "That's how Kaelen Ashwright would have fought in his original body if he'd had to fight upward, against stronger opponents." Kaelen's voice was distant, remembering Typhon's lessons about conserving power against superior foes. You are not always the strongest in the room. Learn to make that irrelevant."You were taught well," Old Moth said, and it was the first time she'd acknowledged the tragedy of that directly. Taught well. By someone who betrayed you with everything he taught you.The silence that followed had weight to it."There's something else," Kaelen said. "The tournament. The fallen men. You listed cultivators with genuine motivations, genuine reasons to enter. The woman looking for her daughter. The man trying to help his student." He looked at Old Moth steadily. "Most of the people I'll be fighting aren't villains. They're desperate people in an impossible realm trying to survive.""Yes," Old Moth said."And I'm going to have to kill them.""Yes.""That doesn't trou
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Chapter: CHAPTER 15: FAR FROM HOME."A stabilizing compound. Your soul is still partially fragmented from the consumption process.”“The fragments that made it into this body are integrating, but they're doing so in a chaotic pattern.”“Without assistance, the integration could take months and cause considerable internal damage." She folded her hands. "With the compound, the process will be uncomfortable for approximately two hours and then largely complete.""And if I choose not to drink it?""Then you spend the next several months feeling like your soul is trying to exit your body through your eye sockets while simultaneously hosting the memories, emotional residue, and muscle memory of a dead street rat whose cultivation was destroyed through his own impatience." Old Moth's expression was tranquil. "I recommend the compound."Kaelen drank it almost immediately.It tasted like regret and metal and something that had no business being a flavor.He managed not to make a sound, because some dignities survived death and
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