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 59She immediately walked forward into the ruin, stepping through the collapsed doorway, her boots meeting ash and the gritty residue of destroyed things. The shelves had come down with the roof's collapse. The table was there, barely, the stone top cracked in two, the wooden legs burned to stubs. The wardrobe door was on the floor, face-down, surrounded by the ash of everything that had hung on its inside surface.She stood over it.She reached down, slowly, and turned it over.Nothing. Ash on the door's interior surface where the pictures had been. The hooks still attached, seven small metal hooks that had survived because metal had a relationship with fire that wood and paper did not.Old Moth looked at the hooks.Seven hooks. Seven students. All of them carried now only in her memory, which was, she supposed, where they'd always primarily existed. The pictures had been records. The reality of them was in her, in the accumulated knowledge of who they'd been and what she'd tried to g
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Chapter: Chapter 58 ASHES AND MOTHS The smell reached her first.Old Moth had lived long enough to know the difference between the smells that different kinds of destruction produced. The sharp chemical bite of formation array discharge. The thick, heavy blanket of structural fire. The specific, irreplaceable smell of very old things burning, of materials that had existed long enough to accumulate a particular density of history, of scrolls and artifacts and objects with no names in living languages catching flame and releasing everything they'd stored into the air in one final, indiscriminate exhalation.She smelled all three.Her walking stick slowed its rhythm. Not stopped. Just slowed, the way a person's breathing slows when they arrive at something they'd known was coming and still needed a moment to receive properly.She turned the corner into the alley behind the dyers' district.The home was gone.Not damaged. Not partially standing with salvageable sections and recoverable contents. Gone, in the specific, comprehens
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Chapter: Chapter 57:Pin looked at the coins for another moment.Then he took them.He closed his small fingers around them with the specific care of someone for whom twelve copper pins represented something real and he held them against his chest for a moment like they were something precious, which they were, because they were twelve children's meals and the Mortal Coil didn't produce things that were more precious than that."Thank you," he said, and the two words came from somewhere genuine and uncomplicated, without the performance of gratitude that adults in difficult situations often attached to the expression, just the direct and simple acknowledgment of one person to another for something that mattered."Don't thank me," Old Moth said. "Buy the bread and feed your children.""They're not my children," Pin said."Yes they are," Old Moth said. "The moment you decided to get up early and collect waste bread and sell it cheap enough that they could afford it, they became your children. That's how it
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Chapter: Chapter 56"Since my mother left," Pin said. "Four months maybe. Before that she did it. I just helped." He looked at Old Moth with the calculating directness of someone who was still in the middle of assessing the situation and hadn't finished. "Why did you stop him?" Pin immediately asked."Because he was hitting you," Old Moth said."People hit street kids all the time," Pin said. "Nobody usually stops them.""No," Old Moth agreed. "They don't.""So why did you?"Old Moth was quiet for a moment, looking at this small sharp-eyed boy on the cobblestones in the morning light, with the cane still lying several feet away and the marks on his arms that would bruise properly by afternoon, and she thought about the question with the seriousness it deserved."Because I was walking past," she said finally. "And I saw it. And in my experience, the decision to walk past something you've seen is a decision you carry." She paused. "I have enough things I carry. I don't need more."Pin looked at her for a
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Chapter: Chapter 55:And then, because the morning had been a long one and the night before it had been longer still, and because the sight of the boy on the ground in his trained silence had landed somewhere in her that had not fully closed since Kaelen had walked out her door, and because Regent Voss, agent Dax and Agent Drake had done a specific thing in a carriage several hours ago and she had responded to it proportionally but the energy of what they'd done and what she'd done in response was still moving through her, she said to the guard, in a voice that was not loud but that carried to every person in the immediate vicinity who had claimed to not be watching:"I want you to listen to me carefully."The guard was listening."This boy," she said, "sold bread scraps from a bakery waste pile to hungry children. He charged three copper pins per bundle. The bakery was throwing the bread away.”“The children needed food. He provided a service that cost him nothing to provide except his time and his willi
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Chapter: Chapter 54:"That's...what does that have to do with...""Bread scraps," the boy said, from the ground. His voice was thin and careful, the voice of someone who'd determined that speaking carried some risk but that the current development offered a fractional possibility worth engaging with. "From the bakery waste pile. I sell them to the other kids on the east side.""For three copper pins a bundle."Old Moth looked at the guard.The guard looked at Old Moth with the expression of a man who understood that the specific details of the enforcement action had just been placed in a context that made them sound a particular way and who was deciding whether to care about that.He decided not to."Vendor code applies regardless of product value," he said. "Rule's the rule. Now, I told you to move along. I'm telling you again." He straightened to his full height and looked down at her with the physical authority that his size and his uniform and his cane collectively provided. "This is enforcement busi
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