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In a world ruled by martial cultivation, where strength is decided by bloodlines, domains, and talent bestowed by the heavens, Lin Ye was born with nothing.

No spiritual pulse.
No visible talent.
No place in the Empire’s records.

He should have lived and died as an error.

Sixteen years ago, an entire hour vanished from the sky. The Empire erased the truth. The gods remained silent. And the world quietly began to break.

Now, invisible anomalies spread across the continents—moments that do not align, spaces that remember paths never taken, ordinary people touched by echoes of a broken timeline. At the center of this silent collapse walks Lin Ye, the bearer of a forbidden system that does not grant power… but steals discarded seconds from reality itself.

Lin Ye does not cultivate like others.
He does not absorb energy.
He does not awaken glorious bloodlines.

Every time he interferes, he pays a permanent price.
Every borrowed instant erases a future that will never exist.

As the Aureon Empire watches him as a tolerated anomaly, hidden factions hunt him, forgotten continents recognize him, and fragments of an ancient entity—the Eye of the Throne—begin to respond to his existence. Fire that does not burn, thunder that does not destroy, and space that remembers become the foundations of an incomplete Threshold Domain, where Lin Ye does not dominate the world… but decides when it is allowed to touch him.

And when time itself begins to bleed across all continents, one truth becomes unavoidable:

Not all disasters can be solved with strength.
Some must be endured… or inherited.

A slow-burn progression fantasy filled with political intrigue, ancient bloodlines, continental conflict, and a protagonist whose greatest power is not dominance—but survival in a world that is breaking.

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Chapter 15 - tomorrow