Ten Thousand Li Beneath Heaven

Pronounced Rootless by the Jade Pavilion Sect, Wei Jianlong refuses the judgment and begins a solitary path of cultivation that challenges the very foundations of what the sects consider possible. As his power grows through methods the orthodox sects have buried and forgotten, he attracts the attention of forces far older than any sect — and discovers that the cultivation world's rigid hierarchy is not ancient wisdom but a choice someone made long ago, and chose to enforce ever since.