Devil Xu: Dao Breaker
By @Joe Asare
Abandoned to die in the toxic, neon-shadowed ruins of the Sealed World, infant Xu Mu survived only because a sentient cosmic crystal fused with his beating heart. Now a ruthless, unaffiliated rogue cultivator, Xu Mu navigates a brutal, cybernetic-spiritual wasteland where cyber-enhanced sects harvest weaker souls like cattle. He possesses a terrifying cheat: his crystal allows him to flawlessly copy and analyze the biological structures and Qi pathways of any cultivator or machine he encounters. But he is driven by a profound, toxic abandonment wound; he believes everyone is a tool to be discarded before they can discard him. As Xu Mu ascends from brutal Body Tempering to Qi Refining, he discovers that the high-tech 'immortals' of the upper realms are cosmic parasites who have caged his world. To break free, he must ruthlessly exploit his copy ability to tear down the divine matrix, even if it costs him his remaining humanity.
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