PATH TO GODHOOD: Balance Breaker

In the Cangyuan Continent, your Core is everything. Your rank, your worth, your name — all of it starts there. Long Xiaoyan was born without one. Crown Prince. Zero talent. The empire's most expensive joke. He told himself the throne would protect him. That his brother's smile meant something. That blood was blood. He was still on fire when he found out he was wrong about all three. Left in the ashes of his own palace with nothing — no title, no family, no reason the next breath was worth taking — something cracked open inside him that had no business existing. [Balance Breaker Protocol: Active.] The Balance Breaker Path hasn't been seen in four thousand years. It doesn't choose the strongest. It doesn't choose the most talented. It chooses the one willing to carry all three paths — Body, Spirit, Soul — simultaneously, when every cultivation master alive will tell you that's impossible. The world took everything from him and left him standing anyway. That was its first mistake. What follows is not a story about revenge — though the people who burned his palace will answer for it. It's not a story about power — though he will become something the continent doesn't have a name for yet. It's a story about a boy who had nothing, built something from the ash, and refused to stop climbing no matter what stood above him. Thirty-two gates. A fallen empire. An immortal plane that doesn't know he's coming. And somewhere beyond all of it — a tribulation that will either end him or make him the first Balance Breaker in four thousand years to reach the other side. Five women who chose him for their own reasons. One ancient dragon who argues with him constantly. One system that called him pathetic on day one and hasn't fully taken it back. He's going to make them all eat their words. The climb starts now.