After the Great Dao Died

The Great Dao is dead.Yet its body did not disappear. It became heaven and earth, giving birth to countless worlds within the folds of its slowly rotting flesh.The farther a person leaves the mortal realm behind, the closer they draw to the source of power, and the more clearly they can smell the decay. The weak die without ever understanding. The strong discover a truth far more terrifying than death: all their techniques, treasures, and schemes spanning thousands of years merely turn them into fatter maggots feeding on the corpse of the long-dead Great Dao.At the very bottom of this vast tomb struggles Chen Lingxi, the last descendant of a ruined clan, a government slave, and a test subject for deadly poisons. To the masters of the estate, he is not a person. He is a piece of meat already marked for the alchemical furnace.His only advantage is the mysterious Divine Chamber. It allows him to see through the eyes of others, steal knowledge never meant for him, and experience the future before it arrives, a future where every mistake ends in death.Chen Lingxi does not seek eternal life. He wants only one thing: to crawl off the table before the feast begins.But the higher he climbs along the path of cultivation, the more horrifying the truth becomes. The table is far larger than he imagined, the diners are beyond counting, and those mortals worship as gods may themselves be nothing more than food.***Official Description:The Great Dao is dead, yet none of the cultivators beneath heaven know it.Heaven and earth are a tomb. The void lies shattered, and countless secret realms have arisen within the rotting fissures of the Dao's corpse.The corpse of the Dao stretches across the Great Void. Its will shattered into [Cauldron Artifacts] and scattered throughout the heavens. Any cultivator who obtains one may glimpse a fragment of the Great Dao's laws.In the Great Li Dynasty, Chen Lingxi obtains the [Divine Chamber] and sets foot upon the path of the Dao.The Divine Chamber is mysterious beyond measure and nurtures divine abilities.[Divine Ability: Wandering Sight]: Bind yourself to another person, see what they see, and uncover the opportunities they encounter.[Divine Ability: Foresight]: Send your consciousness into the Divine Chamber, where it recreates the outside world and the passage of time, allowing its master to learn what the future holds.[Divine Ability: Echo]: Offer time itself as a sacrifice to replay past events from a chosen place within the Divine Chamber.[Divine Ability: Breath Tracing]: Use a relic left behind by the dead to retrace their experiences....With the Divine Chamber in his grasp, Chen Lingxi intended to seek opportunities, seize fortune, and attain immortality.But then he discovered...