A Shapeshifter Cultivation LitRPG Absorption System, Forbidden Path
He has no body.
No rank.
And no place in the system that governs the world.
Three weeks ago, Vael Ashborne was a low-ranking disciple with no future. Then a forbidden ritual shattered him—and left something else behind.
Now he exists as a formless entity sustained by a power the sects cannot classify.
The rules are simple.
Get close.
Absorb.
Take what they know.
Every cultivator he draws from leaves behind technique, instinct, and memory. Every gain makes him stronger. Every second past the limit risks losing himself to what he carries.
Ninety seconds.
That’s all he gets.
Now the sects have issued a continental edict.
Find the anomaly. Identify it. Eliminate it.
They believe they’re hunting a threat.
They’re wrong.
What they’re chasing is the result of a design set in motion fifteen hundred years ago—one that was never meant to be controlled.
Vael doesn’t fight head-on.
He infiltrates. Learns. Adapts.
And with every borrowed face, every stolen technique, he gets closer to something the world has tried to erase for