Description:

Tian wakes up on a mountain of garbage with most of his fingers missing, his body burned and diseased, his memories gone and his clan already ash in the wind. Someone decided his life was not worth a clean grave and threw him away with the rest of the trash.

They were wrong.

Hidden in a ring of bone on his ruined hand is Grandpa Jun, a jaded old monster of a cultivator who spent two centuries gaming the heavens and hoarding every advantage he could squeeze from fate. Faced with the most broken child he has ever seen, he gambles everything on one last investment.

Tian has no talent, no background, no beauty, and no mercy left from the world. What he does have is pain, stubbornness, and a teacher who refuses to let him die. From the garbage dump to the sky itself, a crippled child and a cunning ghost plan to claw their way up and make the heavens choke on what they tried to throw away.