Half-Step Defying Immortality

A young man with a crippled physique and a shattered dantian is cast aside by his sect as a worthless discard, enduring nothing but contempt and humiliation. The world deems him forever incapable of cultivating, destined for a life of mediocrity. All of that changes when he awakens the ancient Eternal Burning Heaven Art at the brink of death. This forbidden technique allows him to refine and repurpose anything deemed useless—waste pills, broken artifacts, stagnant spiritual energy, and even tainted bloodlines. While others toil for a decade to advance a single realm, he burns through countless paths and breaks through three realms in a single day. From that moment, the crippled outcast rises with unstoppable fury, trampling geniuses, subduing demons, overthrowing sects, and defying the very heavens. All paths become his fuel, and with his own body as the flame, he burns the nine skies themselves.