The Last Dual-Cultivator

For six years, Yan Shuo has been the Azure Cloud Sect's favorite joke: a service disciple stuck at the first layer of Qi Gathering, pouring wine for geniuses and digging in a dying spirit mine.

Then, at the engagement banquet of the sect's untouchable Frost Lotus Fairy, Su Lanying, her hand brushes his wrist, and a seal inside him shatters.

Yan Shuo carries the blood of the Twin Souls, a forbidden lineage the Nine Great Sects wiped out for “demonic” dual cultivation. But the history books lied. The lineage's art doesn't drain partners. It makes both stronger, and creates qi in a world that's running out of it. That's exactly why the sects destroyed it.

Now an elder of the Law Hall is watching him. The Frost Lotus Fairy won't stop asking what he did to her. And Yan Shuo has just learned that his mother, supposedly executed years ago, is still alive somewhere inside the sects' darkest secret.

To save her, a man who has never trusted anyone must master a path that only works through trust.

The heavens hoarded power. He'll grow stronger by sharing it.