God's Seven Sons

When his grandfather falls gravely ill, the only medicine that can save him lies with a sect beyond the mountains. Seventeen-year-old Lin Wenqi shoulders a woodcutter's knife and crosses the Dead Camel Desert and the Demon Beast Mountains alone to knock on the gates of Cangshi Sect. He chops wood and carries water in the servants' quarters, slays a demon with a single stroke to pass the outer sect examination, and shakes the Bone Tempering Realm gatekeeper during the grand competition while still at the Quicksand Blood third level—convincing everyone that he is merely a remarkably gifted boy from a mountain village. Then the seals within him begin to loosen, and fragments of a past life seep into his dreams. He sees a man in golden armor wielding a long saber, with the banners of the divine realm stretching to the horizon behind him—his father, supreme commander of the divine armies and the sole War God of the heavens. He witnesses his father being led to the execution platform on charges of colluding with the demon realm, the Divine Emperor's decree absolute, and not a single general daring to speak in his defense. In his final moments, the War God uses the last of his power to send his son out of the divine realm. "Remember, you are no mortal. You are the hope of our bloodline. The heavens above were never meant to be this foul." Lin Wenqi wakes on the hard wooden bed of the servants' quarters. Outside his window, the stars shine bright against a thin moon—the same sky that hangs over his home village. He closes his hand around the knife's handle. In this life, he will climb from the very bottom of the mortal world—not for immortality, not to become a god, but to demand one answer.