Synopsis
A young man from a poor family takes poison to survive. During the awakening ceremony—his last chance—he forces open what should stay closed, pulling down a natal talisman seal that nobody expected. Is it the worthless thing everyone claims, or something else entirely? Ye Li cannot access the sea of spiritual consciousness the normal way. So at his clan's talisman awakening, he drinks the spirit forbidden fruit's poison and tears open what needs to be torn. His natal talisman seal arrives. Strange. Wrong, maybe. The kind of seal people see and call useless. But what if it isn't? What if…
