Treading the Heavens, I Am Supreme

The vast star ocean is forged from oblivion. Every star is a buried history. Every nebula, a sn￭-out epoch. Mankind gazes at the night sky, believing it to be the future—but they are wrong. It is a graveyard. Lin Yuan was once the lowest-ranking star miner in the Federation. During a catastrophic mine collapse, on the verge of death, his hand brushed against a broken stele carved with his own handwriting. In that instant, a truth sealed for ten thousand ages detonated in his mind: the "First Civilization" had once existed in the cosmos, its brilliance too immense to be contained by space and time, so it transformed into the very stars themselves. And he—he was the king-slayer who personally destroyed that civilization. To escape an even more terrifying entity, he chose to forget everything and reincarnated as a miner. Now, he has awakened. With the broken stele in hand, all stars bow before him. The interstellar overlords enthroned above do not yet know—the starry sky they worship is nothing but the scattered ashes of that man. The civilizations they pride themselves upon are mere moss growing from his remains. In this life, Lin Yuan will not flee again. Starting from this desolate planet, one crown-ring at a time, stepping across the celestial dome—he will unearth with his own hands the truth that even his former self feared. "I once destroyed an age." "I once forgot myself." "Now I have returned—" "Treading the heavens, I am supreme in this era."