A soot in the depths of an endless float endlessly. It has no memory of what it was, nor did it know where it was. But it knew that it wanted to experience life. One day, it realized it had become an old man on his deathbed. Experiencing life and death in a flash, the Soot further experienced hundreds more.  Suffering one death after another. The Soot grows desperate and afraid of what comes next. The more flashes of life and death it experienced. The more pain and fear it accumulated. The more its loneliness grew. Its desire to have what it was given for moments, grew intense with all emotion and suffering it endured. It fought and struggled, trying to be free from its accursed fate. Until one day, it arrives at the beginning and end of a life. As the child of a prestigious Martial Family cursed by the Embers of the Celestial Twilight. That day, the Soot was spared from death.  That day it was granted a chance to live and a family. That day, he needed not borrow an existence for he was given a name — Hal Estize. With this name, he will live. How he will live with it. That you must bear witness with your own eyes. === Note: This is a Cultivation Novel but is not deeply rooted to Chinese Mythology. Additionally, this story has a lot of twists and turns, death is not few, and will happen.  It’s a relatively short story, but I hope you enjoy it.