Xianxia

Jian Lei is the shame of his village, a nineteen year old with no spiritual root, mocked by elders and abandoned by his own clan. When bandits raid his village and kill the only person who ever believed in him, a dying flame buried in his chest ignites for the first time. That flame is the last fragment of the Infernal Sage, a being who once tried to burn down the laws of heaven itself. Jian Lei is thrown onto the cultivation path, hunted by sects who want the flame, courted by prodigies who fear it, and slowly falling for a woman whose family may have helped bury the Sage's name a thousand years ago. To save the people he loves he must claw his way from mortal dust into a force strong enough to make heaven answer for its crimes.