The Oath of Eternity

Rhen Jorik has wandered the world for 112 years without cultivating a single day. Born with a Hollow Core that can't absorb qi, he's spent a century as a storyteller, healer's assistant, and nobody. Then a marriage contest for the continent's greatest war goddess forces him onto a stage he has no business standing on -- and the Hollow Core wakes up. It doesn't absorb qi. It forges Oaths -- sacred bonds with willing partners that grant both sides power beyond imagination. The deeper the bond, the greater the reward. The catch: one lie, one betrayal, and the Oath shatters, killing them both. In a world where the Five Sacred Sects harvest special-bodied cultivators as immortality elixirs every 500 years, the last man alive who can forge unbreakable bonds is either the world's salvation or its most dangerous weapon. And the ancient Empress sealed beneath the Celestial Altar has been waiting 10,000 years for someone exactly like him.