The Ashbone Ledger

Her silver blade is pressed tight against my throat, and the only reason this lethal enforcer hasn't severed my carotid is the cursed blood contract forcing her to keep me alive. To the ice-cold officer and the smiling usurpers plotting my execution, I am nothing more than Lucan—a crippled, useless clan heir whose broken meridians make him easy prey. They don't know the real Lucan is dead. I'm Noah Vale, a broke EMT dragged across dimensions after a subway disaster, stuck in a ruthless martial world where weakness is a death sentence. Survival should be impossible. But burning inside my soul is the Ashbone Ledger: an ancient artifact that logs every fractured bone, every public humiliation, and every lethal strike aimed at me, converting pure pain into overwhelming cultivation power. The harder they beat me, the deadlier I become. With ruthless clan trials looming and a smiling puppet master tightening the noose around both my neck and my comatose sister back on Earth, I must play the harmless cripple by day and an apex predator by night. Can I master the ledger before our fragile contract snaps, or will both realms burn to ash?