Qi-Null: The Heretical Void and the Celestial Observer

In the Dominion of Vaen — a world where every machine, weapon, and soul runs on the flow of Qi — one boy was born with none. Xang Xi, the only recorded Nullborn, lives in the industrial slums of Lohvar, where strength determines worth and weakness is treated as sin. While the powerful cultivate to ascend the Celestial Realms, Xang survives on kindness alone, laboring to afford the treatment that keeps his little sister alive. Yet compassion is a crime in a world fueled by greed, and fate is not kind to those who defy it. When a dimensional anomaly tears reality apart, Xang is pulled into a forgotten realm — face-to-face with Tao, the Celestial White Tiger who has watched humanity since time immemorial. In her boredom, the goddess of infinity makes a choice: to break the laws of heaven and reforged the one being existence itself had ignored. And thus begins the awakening of the Heretical Void. His rebirth will shatter cultivation’s foundation. His compassion will challenge divinity. For even the greatest void cannot go unseen forever.